Gender and Welfare States in East Asia - Confucianism Or Gender Equality?

Informationen zum Autor Sook-Yeon Won, Ewha University in Seoul, KoreaShu-yun Wu (Jessie), National Chi Nan University, TaiwanXiaoyuan Shang, University of New South Wales, AustraliaKaren Fisher, University of New South Wales, AustraliaGuo Ping, China Research Center On Ageing (CRCA), ChinaLeung Lai Ching, City University of Hong Kong, Hong KongKimio ITO, Kyoto University, JapanEmiko Ochiai, Kyoto University, JapanKenichi Johshita, Kyoto University, Japan Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Gender and Welfare States in East Asia; Sirin Sung and Gillian Pascall 2. Work-family Balance Issues and Policies in Korea: Towards an Egalitarian Regime?; Sirin Sung 3. Rhetoric or Reality? Peripheral Status of Women's Bureaux in the Korean Gender Regime; Sook-Yeon Won 4. Continuity and Change: Comparing Work and Care Reconciliation of Two Generations of Women in Taiwan; Jessie Wu 5. Gender, Social Policy and Older Women with Disabilities in Rural China; Xiaoyuan Shang, Karen R. Fisher and Ping Guo 6. Confucian Welfare: A barrier to the Gender Mainstreaming of Domestic Violence Policy in Hong Kong; Lai Ching Leung 7. Emerging Culture Wars: Backlash Against 'Gender Freedom'; Kimio Ito 8. Prime Ministers' Discourse in Japan's Reforms since the 1980s: Traditionalization of Modernity rather than Confucianism; Emiko Ochiai and Kenichi Johshita 9. Conclusion: Confucianism or Gender Equality?; Gillian Pascall and Sirin Sung...

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• Authors: Gillian Pascall, S. Pascall Sung, Siri Sung, Sirin Sung, Sirin Pascall Sung
• Assisted by: Pascall (Editor), Pascall (Editor), G. Pascall (Editor), Gillian Pascall (Editor), Sung (Editor), S Sung (Editor), S. Sung (Editor), Sirin Sung (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349326822
• ISBN: 978-1-349-32682-2
• No. of pages: 212
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Women's and gender studies; B, Kulturwissenschaften, Gender Studies, Sozialwesen und soziale Dienste, Kommunal-, Regional- Landes und Lokalregierung, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Welfare State, Political Science, Social Policy, Welfare, Political science & theory, Social welfare & social services, auseinandersetzen, Social Service, Central / national / federal government policies, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Care, Politics of the Welfare State, Politikwissenschaft und politische Theorie