Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia brings together a collection of original essays from top scholars in the United States and Asia to explore the centrality of gender in the process of economic development in East Asia. Contributors demonstrate through ethnography, personal narratives, field observation, and in-depth interviews the essential parts women have played in the national growth, economic restructuring, and industrialization of East Asian countries, including South Korea, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and China.
Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia brings together a collection of original essays from top scholars in the United States and Asia to explore the centrality of gender in the process of economic development in East Asia. Contributors demonstrate through ethnography, personal narratives, field observation, and in-depth interviews the essential parts women have played in the national growth, economic restructuring, and industrialization of East Asian countries, including South Korea, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and China.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Esther Ngan-ling Chow is Professor of Sociology at American University in Washington D.C. and has served as an adjunct faculty member in the Center for Asian Studies, and is affiliated with the Women's and Gender Studies programs.
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Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Esther Ngan-ling Chow Part I: EnGendering East Asian Development Chapter 1: Globalization East Asian Development and Gender: A Historical Overview Esther Ngan-ling Chow Chapter 2: Studying Gender and Development with Gender Perspectives: From Mainstream Theories to Alternative Frameworks Esther Ngan-ling Chow and Deanna M. Lyter Part II: The Process of Industrialization: Institutional Embeddedness Control and Resistance Chapter 3: Women and Work in East Asia Yin-wah Chu Chapter 4: Gendered Organizations Embodiment and Employment among Manufacturing Workers in Taiwan Esther Ngan-ling Chow and Ray-May Hsung Chapter 5: Power Media Representation and Labor Dispute: The Case of Women Workers in South Korea Hyun Mee Kim Part III: The Impact of Economic Restructuring on Employment and Family Chapter 6: Women's Unemployment Re-employment and Self-employment in China's Economic Restructuring Ting Gong Chapter 7: State Women Workers in Chinese Economic Reform: The Transformation of Management Control and Firm Independence Ping Ping Chapter 8: Gender Embeddedness of Family Strategies: Hong Kong Working-class Families Under Economic Restructuring Vivian Hiu-tung Leung Part IV: Migration Household and Gender Strategies Chapter 9: Guests From the Tropics: Labor Practices and Foreign Workers in Taiwan Anru Lee Chapter 10: Fleeing Poverty: Rural Women Expanding Marriage Markets and Strategies for Social Mobility in Contemporary China Christina Gilmartin and Lin Tan Chapter 11: Women's Work in International Migration Janet W. Salaff Bibliography About the Contributors Index
Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Esther Ngan-ling Chow Part I: EnGendering East Asian Development Chapter 1: Globalization East Asian Development and Gender: A Historical Overview Esther Ngan-ling Chow Chapter 2: Studying Gender and Development with Gender Perspectives: From Mainstream Theories to Alternative Frameworks Esther Ngan-ling Chow and Deanna M. Lyter Part II: The Process of Industrialization: Institutional Embeddedness Control and Resistance Chapter 3: Women and Work in East Asia Yin-wah Chu Chapter 4: Gendered Organizations Embodiment and Employment among Manufacturing Workers in Taiwan Esther Ngan-ling Chow and Ray-May Hsung Chapter 5: Power Media Representation and Labor Dispute: The Case of Women Workers in South Korea Hyun Mee Kim Part III: The Impact of Economic Restructuring on Employment and Family Chapter 6: Women's Unemployment Re-employment and Self-employment in China's Economic Restructuring Ting Gong Chapter 7: State Women Workers in Chinese Economic Reform: The Transformation of Management Control and Firm Independence Ping Ping Chapter 8: Gender Embeddedness of Family Strategies: Hong Kong Working-class Families Under Economic Restructuring Vivian Hiu-tung Leung Part IV: Migration Household and Gender Strategies Chapter 9: Guests From the Tropics: Labor Practices and Foreign Workers in Taiwan Anru Lee Chapter 10: Fleeing Poverty: Rural Women Expanding Marriage Markets and Strategies for Social Mobility in Contemporary China Christina Gilmartin and Lin Tan Chapter 11: Women's Work in International Migration Janet W. Salaff Bibliography About the Contributors Index
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