Gender And Food In Transnational East Asias

Author : Jooyeon Rhee,Chikako Nagayama,Eric Ping Hung Li
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781793623553

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Gender and Food in Transnational East Asias by Jooyeon Rhee,Chikako Nagayama,Eric Ping Hung Li Pdf

Gender and Food in Transnational East Asias illustrates how the production and consumption of food encapsulates the changes that affect social positions of women and men and their relationships with their families, the state, and their work, as well as shapes their gender, sexual, ethnic, and national identities. The transnational movement of food and people between East Asia and the rest of the world is increasingly visible, forming various forces behind the cultural and political constructions of gender politics among and beyond Asian diasporas. By critically engaging with history, practices, and representation of food as a constructive window to articulate gender dynamics in the East Asian region, this volume approaches food as a symbolic and material site where gender roles and identities are imagined, performed, and negotiated. It argues that a critical engagement with practices and representations of food from gender perspectives can enhance our understanding of the society and culture of transnational East Asias.

Author : Yasemin Nuhoḡlu Soysal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317592594

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Transnational Trajectories in East Asia by Yasemin Nuhoḡlu Soysal Pdf

In recent decades, East Asia has become increasingly interconnected through trade, investment, migration, and popular culture at regional and global levels. At the same time, the region has seen renewed national assertiveness and nationalist impulses. The book interrogates these seemingly contradictory developments as they bear on the transformations of the nation and citizenship in East Asia. Conventionally, studies on East Asia juxtapose these developments, focusing on the much-exercised dichotomy of the national and transnational. In contrast, this book suggests a different orientation. First, it moves beyond the simplistic view that demarcates the transnational as "the West". Second, it does not view the national and transnational as distinct or contradictory spheres of influence and analysis, but rather, focuses on the interactions between the two, with a view on how these interactions work to transform the ideals and practices of the "good nation", "good society", and "good citizen". The chapters cover a broad range of empirical research--education, science, immigration, multicultural policy, human rights, gender and youth orientations, art and food flows, politics of values and regional identity--which highlight the ways in which the nation is reconfigured, and the relationship between the citizen and (national) collective is redefined, in relation to transnational dynamics and frameworks. Transnational Trajectories in East Asia provides a new perspective on and original analysis of transnational processes, bringing a fresh understanding to developments of the nation and citizenship in the region. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of transnationalization and globalization; comparative citizenship, migration, and multiculturalism; and Asian politics, society, and regionalism.

Author : Nita Kumar,Usha Sanyal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781350137080

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Food, Faith and Gender in South Asia by Nita Kumar,Usha Sanyal Pdf

How do women express individual agency when engaging in seemingly prescribed or approved practices such as religious fasting? How are sectarian identities played out in the performance of food piety? What do food practices tell us about how women negotiate changes in family relationships? This collection offers a variety of distinct perspectives on these questions. Organized thematically, areas explored include the subordination of women, the nature of resistance, boundary making and the construction of identity and community. Methodologically, the essays use imaginative reconstructions of women's experiences, particularly where the only accounts available are written by men. The essays focus on Hindus and Muslims in South Asia, Sri Lankan Buddhist women and South Asians in the diaspora in the US and UK. Pioneering new research into food and gender roles in South Asia, this will be of use to students of food studies, sociology, anthropology and cultural studies.

Author : Angela Ki Che Leung,Izumi Nakayama
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888390908

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Gender, Health, and History in Modern East Asia by Angela Ki Che Leung,Izumi Nakayama Pdf

This groundbreaking volume captures and analyzes the exhilarating and at times disorienting experience when scientists, government officials, educators, and the general public in East Asia tried to come to terms with the introduction of Western biological and medical sciences to the region. The nexus of gender and health is a compelling theme, for this is an area in which private lives and personal characteristics encounter the interventions of public policies. The nine empirically based studies by scholars of history of medicine, sociology, anthropology, and STS (science, technology, and society), spanning Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong from the 1870s to the present, demonstrate just how tightly concerns with gender and health have been woven into the enterprise of modernization and nation-building throughout the long twentieth century. The concepts of “gender” and “health” have become so commonly used that one might overlook that they are actually complicated notions with vexed histories even in their native contexts. Transposing such terminologies into another historical or geographical dimension is fraught with problems, and what makes the East Asian cases in this volume particularly illuminating is that they present concepts of gender and health in motion. The studies show how individuals and societies made sense of modern scientific discourses on diseases, body, sex, and reproduction, redefining existing terms in the process and adopting novel ideas to face new challenges and demands. “Whether reviewing the comparative national histories of birth control, debating early cases of transsexual surgery, or highlighting the resurgence of ‘traditional’ Asian medical commodities, this volume provides accessible and productive studies on these intriguing topics in Asia. Scholars of modern East Asia and indeed anyone concerned with the analysis of gender and health in light of intersecting postcolonial studies will find the book rewarding.” —Rayna Rapp, New York University “A bold and important volume that explores the interweaving of gender, body, and modernity throughout East Asia. With vivid articles on sexuality, reproductive technologies, and sexual identities, the book opens multiple possibilities for how ‘Asia as method’ can shine new light on persistent theoretical questions from biopower to biocitizenship.” —Ruth Rogaski, Vanderbilt University

Author : Nita Kumar,Usha Sanyal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 135013709X

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Food, Faith and Gender in South Asia by Nita Kumar,Usha Sanyal Pdf

"How do women express individual agency when engaging in seemingly prescribed or approved practices such as religious fasting? How are sectarian identities played out in the performance of food piety? What do food practices tell us about how women negotiate changes in family relationships? This collection offers a variety of distinct perspectives on these questions. Organized thematically, areas explored include the subordination of women, the nature of resistance, boundary making and the construction of identity and community. Methodologically, the essays use imaginative reconstructions of women's experiences, particularly where the only accounts available are written by men. The essays focus on Hindus and Muslims in South Asia, Sri Lankan Buddhist women and South Asians in the diaspora in the US and UK. Pioneering new research into food and gender roles in South Asia, this will be of use to students of food studies, sociology, anthropology and cultural studies"--...

Author : Kate Barclay,Graeme Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317634515

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East Asia's Demand for Energy, Minerals and Food by Kate Barclay,Graeme Smith Pdf

China Japan and South Korea’s international relations are shaped by the fact that all three countries are significant importers of resources. This book brings together work on specific aspects of the politics of resources for each of these countries, regionally and internationally. There are some similarities in the approaches taken by all these three. For example, their development assistance shares a focus on infrastructure building and reluctance to purposefully influence domestic politics. However, there are also significant differences due in large part to the individual nature of the states as international actors. China has significant domestic supplies of resources while Japan and Korea are net importers. China’s size also marks it out as different, as does its state socialist history and continuing authoritarian state. One of the key issues to understanding contemporary resource politics in Northeast Asia is that Western dominance of the world order is currently declining. In some cases Northeast Asian approaches to resources are seen as being mercantilist. In other cases Northeast Asian powers are seen as replacing Western powers in exploiting resource-rich developing countries. This book gives readers an informed view of this very important issue in contemporary international relations. This bookw as published as a special issue of Asian Studies Review.

Author : Joanne Miyang Cho,Douglas T. McGetchin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319404394

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Gendered Encounters between Germany and Asia by Joanne Miyang Cho,Douglas T. McGetchin Pdf

This volume provides new insights into gendered interactions over the past two centuries between Germany and Asia, including India, China, Japan, and previously overlooked Asian countries including Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, and Korea. This volume presents scholarship from academics working in the field of German-Asian Studies as it relates to gender across transnational encounters in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Gender has been a lens of analysis in isolated published chapters in previous edited volumes on German-Asian connections, but nowhere has there been a volume specifically dedicated to the analysis of gender in this field. Rejecting traditional notions of West and East as seeming polar opposites, their contributions to this volume attempts to reconstruct the ways in which German and Asian men and women have cooperated and negotiated the challenge of modernity in various fields.

Author : Kwang Ok Kim
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782385639

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Re-orienting Cuisine by Kwang Ok Kim Pdf

Foods are changed not only by those who produce and supply them, but also by those who consume them. Analyzing food without considering changes over time and across space is less meaningful than analyzing it in a global context where tastes, lifestyles, and imaginations cross boundaries and blend with each other, challenging the idea of authenticity. A dish that originated in Beijing and is recreated in New York is not necessarily the same, because although authenticity is often claimed, the form, ingredients, or taste may have changed. The contributors of this volume have expanded the discussion of food to include its social and cultural meanings and functions, thereby using it as a way to explain a culture and its changes.

Author : Siumi Maria Tam,Danning Wang,Wai-Ching Angela Wong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Families
ISBN : 1138678171

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Gender and Family in East Asia by Siumi Maria Tam,Danning Wang,Wai-Ching Angela Wong Pdf

The on-going reconfiguration of geo-political and economic forces across the globe has created a new institutional and moral environment for East Asian family life and gender dynamics. Indeed, modernisation in East Asia has brought about increases in women's education levels and participation in the labour force, a delay in marriage age, lower birth rates, and smaller family size. And yet, despite the process of modernization, traditional systems such as Confucianism and patriarchal rules, continue to shape gender politics and family relationships in East Asia. This book examines gender politics and family culture in East Asia in light of both the overwhelming changes that modernization and globalization have brought to the region, and the structural restrictions that women in East Asian societies continue to face in their daily lives. Across three sections, the contributors to this volume focus on marriage and motherhood, religion and family, and migration. In doing so, they reveal how actions and decisions implemented by the state trigger changes in gender and family at the local level, the impact of increasing internal and transnational migration on East Asian culture, and how religion interweaves with the state in shaping gender dynamics and daily life within the family. With case studies from across the region, including South Korea, Japan, mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Asian studies, gender studies, anthropology, sociology and social policy.

Author : Shirley Lim,Larry E. Smith,Wimal Dissanayake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015047604361

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Transnational Asia Pacific by Shirley Lim,Larry E. Smith,Wimal Dissanayake Pdf

Provides a transnational perspective on some of the complex cultural effects of emerging global capitalisms and modernities in the Asia Pacific region.

Author : Theresa W. Devasahayam
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Food security
ISBN : 9813231890

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Ensuring a Square Meal by Theresa W. Devasahayam Pdf

Research on women and food security in Southeast Asia has been limited. The collection of chapters in Ensuring a Square Meal: Women and Food Security in Southeast Asia is one of the first attempts at providing a lens into the linkages between women and food security at the household, community, national and transnational levels. More broadly, the chapters examine women's contribution to the food security of households, resource distribution to produce food, and the purchasing power to buy food. In analysing the various facets to food security in relation to gender, the analyses focus on women and food security within the meanings of "private" and "public", and the extent to which the effects of the two spheres spill over into each other. Given women's critical role in food and agricultural production and provision, Ensuring a Square Meal: Women and Food Security in Southeast Asia assesses the structural forces that enable women to access productive resources and, in turn, ensure sustainable strategies for food security at the household level.

Author : Siumi Maria Tam,Wai Ching Angela Wong,Danning Wang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134738946

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Gender and Family in East Asia by Siumi Maria Tam,Wai Ching Angela Wong,Danning Wang Pdf

The on-going reconfiguration of geo-political and economic forces across the globe has created a new institutional and moral environment for East Asian family life and gender dynamics. Indeed, modernisation in East Asia has brought about increases in women’s education levels and participation in the labour force, a delay in marriage age, lower birth rates, and smaller family size. And yet, despite the process of modernization, traditional systems such as Confucianism and patriarchal rules, continue to shape gender politics and family relationships in East Asia. This book examines gender politics and family culture in East Asia in light of both the overwhelming changes that modernization and globalization have brought to the region, and the structural restrictions that women in East Asian societies continue to face in their daily lives. Across three sections, the contributors to this volume focus on marriage and motherhood, religion and family, and migration. In doing so, they reveal how actions and decisions implemented by the state trigger changes in gender and family at the local level, the impact of increasing internal and transnational migration on East Asian culture, and how religion interweaves with the state in shaping gender dynamics and daily life within the family. With case studies from across the region, including South Korea, Japan, mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Asian studies, gender studies, anthropology, sociology and social policy.

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821396261

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Toward Gender Equality in East Asia and the Pacific by World Bank Pdf

Toward Gender Equality in East Asia and the Pacific examines the relationship between gender equality and development and outlines an agenda for public action to promote more effective and inclusive development in East Asian and Pacific countries.

Author : Sirin Sung,Gillian Pascall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137314796

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Gender and Welfare States in East Asia by Sirin Sung,Gillian Pascall Pdf

Contributors address questions about gender equality in a Confucian context across a wide and varied social policy landscape, from Korea and Taiwan, where Confucian culture is deeply embedded, through China, with its transformations from Confucianism to communism and back, to the mixed cultural environments of Hong Kong and Japan.

Author : Esther Ngan-ling Chow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : East Asia
ISBN : OCLC:1011793923

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Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia by Esther Ngan-ling Chow Pdf