Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia
Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia

Author: Esther Ngan-ling Chow

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-02

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1317795199

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Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia brings together a collection of original essays from top scholars in the United States and Asia to explore the centrality of gender in the process of economic development in East Asia. Contributors demonstrate through ethnography, personal narratives, field observation, and in-depth interviews the essential parts women have played in the national growth, economic restructuring, and industrialization of East Asian countries, including South Korea, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and China.

Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia
Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia

Author: Esther Ngan-ling Chow

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-02

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1317795202

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Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia brings together a collection of original essays from top scholars in the United States and Asia to explore the centrality of gender in the process of economic development in East Asia. Contributors demonstrate through ethnography, personal narratives, field observation, and in-depth interviews the essential parts women have played in the national growth, economic restructuring, and industrialization of East Asian countries, including South Korea, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and China.

Women of Asia
Women of Asia

Author: Mehrangiz Najafizadeh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-07-11

Total Pages: 1128

ISBN-13: 1315458438

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With thirty-two original chapters reflecting cutting edge content throughout developed and developing Asia, Women of Asia: Globalization, Development, and Gender Equity is a comprehensive anthology that contributes significantly to understanding globalization’s transformative process and the resulting detrimental and beneficial consequences for women in the four major geographic regions of Asia—East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Eurasia/Central Asia—as it gives "voice" to women and provides innovative ways through which salient understudied issues pertaining to Asian women’s situation are brought to the forefront.

Women of Asia
Women of Asia

Author: Mehrangiz Najafizadeh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-07-11

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 1315458446

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With thirty-two original chapters reflecting cutting edge content throughout developed and developing Asia, Women of Asia: Globalization, Development, and Gender Equity is a comprehensive anthology that contributes significantly to understanding globalization’s transformative process and the resulting detrimental and beneficial consequences for women in the four major geographic regions of Asia—East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Eurasia/Central Asia—as it gives "voice" to women and provides innovative ways through which salient understudied issues pertaining to Asian women’s situation are brought to the forefront.

Toward Gender Equality in East Asia and the Pacific
Toward Gender Equality in East Asia and the Pacific

Author: World Bank

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2012-10-01

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0821396269

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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.

Women’s Working Lives in East Asia
Women’s Working Lives in East Asia

Author: Mary C. Brinton

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780804743549

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This volume examines the nature of married women's participation in the economies of three East Asian countries—Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. In addition to asking what is similar or different about women's economic participation in this region of the world compared to Western societies, the book also asks how women's work patterns vary across the three countries.

Gender and Food in Transnational East Asias
Gender and Food in Transnational East Asias

Author: Jooyeon Rhee

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-10-12

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1793623554

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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.

Gender in Modern East Asia
Gender in Modern East Asia

Author: Barbara Molony

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-04

Total Pages: 845

ISBN-13: 0429973446

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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.

Gender Trends in Southeast Asia
Gender Trends in Southeast Asia

Author: Theresa W. Devasahayam

Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 9812309551

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As a region, Southeast Asia has undergone enormous economic and social changes in the last few decades. Women as a collective have seen their lives transformed as a result of rapid development and economic growth. In exploring the progress made by Southeast Asian men and women, this book seeks to answer the following questions: (a) In what areas have women been able to achieve parity with men? (b) In what areas do women encounter specific disadvantages based on their gender as compared with men? and (c) How have womens concerns and problems been addressed by the governments in this region with the aim of encouraging gender equality? As the title of this book suggests, the chapters provide an analysis of the broad trends - including changes and continuities - in the experiences, interests and concerns of Southeast Asian women. The chapters examine the trends related to women in the following arenas: the family, economic participation, politics, health, and religion. In some arenas, the trends reflect the disadvantages women face, which in turn have led to gender gaps; in other areas, women's progress has been found to eclipse that of the men, although this tends to be the exception.

Gender Equality in East Asia
Gender Equality in East Asia

Author: Gillian M. Brown

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 12

ISBN-13:

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This report looks at the track record of progress on womens empowerment in the East Asia and Pacific region, especially in the context of the evolving economic and political environment. The paper coincides with the ten-year anniversary of the Beijing World Conference on Women and focuses on changes since then, within the context of broad trends over the last forty years. Since the 1960s many East Asian countries have invested heavily in human development and have reaped the benefits in terms of economic growth and improved social indicators. Aggregate regional indicators show the dramatic improvements in the health and education of women that have occurred over the last forty years.