Patriarchy In East Asia

Author : Kaku Sechiyama
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-27
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9789004247772

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Patriarchy in East Asia by Kaku Sechiyama Pdf

The role and significance of patriarchy in East Asia varies greatly according to the interplay between deeply entrenched cultural norms, economic change, and government policy. The aim of this book, therefore, is to offer an historical perspective on these issues combined with an analysis of the transitions and outcomes that have occurred in the status of women over the course of modernization and industrialization in five East Asian societies – Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan, and China. The narrative is interwoven with a discussion of contemporary issues such as the persistence of tradition and gender discrimination, how gender roles undermine the development of healthier marriage and family relationships (and better relations among the generations), the lack of full equality for women in employment, falling birth rates, and rising divorce rates. Patriarchy in East Asia is the first study of its kind undertaken by a sociologist who is fluent in all of the local languages, thereby providing a rare level of access in terms of research of primary sources.

Author : Siumi Maria Tam,Wai Ching Angela Wong,Danning Wang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134738878

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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 : Kalwant Bhopal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429851322

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Gender, 'Race' and Patriarchy by Kalwant Bhopal Pdf

The book offers one of the first detailed studies of South Asian women, it provides new empirical data on the issues apparent in South Asian women's lives by 'giving voice' to a group of women who would otherwise remain silent. It is based upon an ethnographic study of a small South Asian community in an inner city. The book offers a new and compelling account of South Asian women, as well as focussing on the ways in which gender and 'race' interact in women’s lives. The book offers an important theoretical contribution to the area of feminist theory. The concept of patriarchy is contested and reworked and applied to the study of South Asian women and their cultural experiences. In this sense, practices such as arranged marriages, dowries, domestic labour and domestic finance are analyzed as different influences of patriarchy inside the household, as well as education and the labour market as influences of patriarchy outside the household.

Author : Rose J. Lee
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1555878881

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Democracy and the Status of Women in East Asia by Rose J. Lee Pdf

Though modernization and democratization have benefited many women in developing countries, capitalist development has often produced patriarchal roles and stereotypes. This collection examines how the processes of modernization and democratization have affected women in East Asia.

Author : Rose J. Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1626373272

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Democracy and the Status of Women in East Asia by Rose J. Lee Pdf

Author : Barbara Molony
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429973444

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Gender in Modern East Asia by Barbara Molony Pdf

Gender in Modern East Asia explores the history of women and gender in China, Korea, and Japan from the seventeenth century to the present. This unique volume treats the three countries separately within each time period while also placing them in global and regional contexts. Its transnational and integrated approach connects the cultural, economic, and social developments in East Asia to what is happening across the wider world. The text focuses specifically on the dynamic histories of sexuality; gender ideology, discourse, and legal construction; marriage and the family; and the gendering of work, society, culture, and power. Important themes and topics woven through the text include Confucianism, writing and language, the role of the state in gender construction, nationalism, sexuality and prostitution, New Women and Modern Girls, feminisms, "comfort" women, and imperialism. Accessibly written and comprehensive, Gender in Modern East Asia is a much-needed contribution to the study of the region.

Author : Susan Blackburn,Helen Ting
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789971696740

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Women in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements by Susan Blackburn,Helen Ting Pdf

Books on Southeast Asian nationalist movements make very little - if any - mention of women in their ranks. Biographical studies of politically active women in Southeast Asia are also rare. Women in Southeast Asian Nationalist Movements makes a strong case for the significance of women's involvement in nationalist movements and for the diverse impact of those movements on the lives of individual women activists. Some of the 12 women whose political activities are discussed in this volume are well known, while others are not. Some of them participated in armed struggles, while others pursued peaceful ways of achieving national independence. The authors show women negotiating their own subjectivity and agency at the confluence of colonialism, patriarchal traditions, and modern ideals of national and personal emancipation. They also illustrate the constraints imposed on them by wider social and political structures, and show what it was like to live as a political activist in different times and places. Fully documented and drawing on wider scholarship, this book will be of interest to students of Southeast Asian history and politics as well as readers with a particular interest in women, nationalism and political activism.

Author : Dorothy Ko,JaHyun Kim Haboush,Joan R. Piggott
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Confucianism
ISBN : 9780520231054

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Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan by Dorothy Ko,JaHyun Kim Haboush,Joan R. Piggott Pdf

This book rewrites the history of East Asia by rethinking the contentious relationship between "Confucianisms" and "women."

Author : Karim Wazir Wazir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000323306

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Male and Female in Developing South-East Asia by Karim Wazir Wazir Pdf

This provocative book seeks to redress inaccuracies in Western perceptions of gender relations in Southeast Asia by bringing to the fore the area's ethnic and cultural variance and showing how women and men explain the informal and psychological dimensions of relationships as vital in holding family, neighbourhood and kinship ties together. Although there are differences between male and female perceptions of sex roles in society, women perceive their situation as disadvantaged rather than less significant. Male-female interpretations of power and status tend to converge usually towards the understanding that the contributions of men and women are equally important in the formation of family and society.

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Bina Agarwal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040746278

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Structures of Patriarchy by Bina Agarwal Pdf

Author : Jieyu Liu,Junko Yamashita
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317337331

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Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies by Jieyu Liu,Junko Yamashita Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies presents up-to-date theoretical and conceptual developments in key areas of the field, taking a multi-disciplinary and comparative approach. Featuring contributions by leading scholars of Gender Studies to provide a cutting-edge overview of the field, this handbook includes examples from China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong and covers the following themes: theorising gender relations; women’s and feminist movements; work, care and migration; family and intergenerational relationships; cultural representation; masculinity; and state, militarism and gender. This handbook is essential reading for scholars and students of Gender and Women’s Studies, as well as East Asian societies, social policy and culture.

Author : Wazir-Jahan Begum Karim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1995-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015034513641

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Male and Female in Developing South-East Asia by Wazir-Jahan Begum Karim Pdf

Examines Western perceptions of gender relations in Southeast Asia, highlighting the area's ethnic and cultural variance and showing how women and men explain the informal and psychological dimension of relationships as vital in holding family, neighbourho

Author : Penny Van Esterik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Women
ISBN : UOM:39015005903409

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Women of Southeast Asia by Penny Van Esterik Pdf

Author : Kenneth M. Cuno,Manisha Desai
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815651482

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Family, Gender, and Law in a Globalizing Middle East and South Asia by Kenneth M. Cuno,Manisha Desai Pdf

The essays in this collection examine issues of gender, family, and law in the Middle East and South Asia. In particular, the authors address the impact of colonialism on law, family, and gender relations; the role of religious politics in writing family law and the implications for gender relations; and the tension between international standards emerging from UN conferences and conventions and various nationalist projects. Employing the frame of globalization, the authors highlight how local and global forces interact and influence the experience and actions of people who engage with the law. By virtue of a "south-south" comparison of two quite similar and culturally linked regions, contributors avoid positing "the West" as a modern telos. Drawing upon the fields of anthropology, history, sociology, and law, this volume offers a wide-ranging exploration of the complicated history of jurisprudence with regard to family and gender.