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Book Description
The essays in this volume explore women's working and family lives in contemporary East and Southeast Asia, focusing on conflict between family and work roles, structural obstacles in the workplace, and the impact of state policies on women's well-being. It also discusses strategies that women employ in response to structural contraints provided in the context. This volume covers a particularly wide range of societies, some of which were rarely studied, in contemporary Asia. By comparing these ten Asian economies that are at different stages of economic development, the volume demonstrates the way in which gender relations transform in the course of development. The book is particularly important for sociologists and anthropologists who are interested in gender and economic development.
About the Author
Leng Leng Thang, Ph.D. (1997) in Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, is Assistant Professor at Department of Japanese Studies, National University of Singapore. She is the author of Generations in Touch: Linking the old and young in Tokyo neighbourhood (Cornell University Press, 2001).
Wei-hsin Yu, Ph.D. (1999) in Sociology, University of Chicago, is Assistant Research Fellow at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. She has published extensively on labor markets in East Asia and is currently working on a book comparing women's employment in Japan and Taiwan.
Old Challenges, New Strategies: Women, Work and Family in Contemporary Asia (Social Sciences in Asia, V. 1),Leng Leng Thang,Wei-Hsin Yu,Brill Academic Publishers,9004137327,Asia,Employment,Ethnic Studies - General,Interior Design - General,Labor & Industrial Relations - General,Politics - Current Events,Politics / Current Events,Social Science,Sociology,Women,Women's Studies - General,Work and family,Cultural studies
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