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This book examines gender politics and family culture in East Asia in light of both the overwhelming changes that modernization and globalization has brought to the region, and 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.
List of contents
Introduction: Gender and Family in East Asia Part I: Marriage and Motherhood 1. Transforming the Gendered Organization of Childcare: Experiences of Three Generations of Rural Mothers in an Inland Chinese Village (1940s-2006) 2. Going Back to Traditional Ethics? The Importance of Marriage for Female College Graduates in Japan from 1995 to 2010 3. Behind The Family's Common Interest: Battles Between Korean Entrepreneur Couples 4. In the Name of the Father? The Law and Social Norms of Children's Surnames in Taiwan Part II: Migration 5. The Implication of Labor Migration for Left-behind Married Miao Women in a Poor Village in Guizhou 6. Making A Productive Home: How Chinese Immigrant Women "Do Family" 7. Gender, Family, and Work: Examining the Transnational Migration Processes of Chinese Immigrant Women in Canada 8.T ransnational Duties: Marriage and Family Practices among Indian Migrants in Hong Kong Part III: Religion and Family 9. Islamic Menhuan System, Patrilineal Family, and Gender Relations of Dongxiang People in Gansu 10. Theorizing Women’s Agency: Women’s Religious Negotiation with Marginal Families in Chinese Society 11. Women, Mourning, and the Ritual for the Death of Family 11. Conclusion: Marriages and Families in Asia: Something Old and Something New?
About the author
Siumi Maria Tam is Associate Professor and former Chairperson of the Department of Anthropology, and co-chairs the Gender Studies Programme at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Wai Cing Angela Wong is Associate Professor the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, the Director of MA Programme in Intercultural Studies and Co-Director of the Gender Research Centre at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Danning Wang is Lecturer in the Anthropology Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
