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Transforming gender and development in East Asia / edited by Esther Ngan-ling Chow.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2002Description: 1 online resource (xii, 268 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317795193 (electronic bk.)
  • 1317795199 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Transforming gender and development in East AsiaDDC classification:
  • 305.42/095 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ1240.5.E18 T73 2002eb
Other classification:
  • 83.46
  • RR 65986
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. I. EnGendering East Asian development -- ch. 1. Globalization, East Asian development, and gender : a historical overview / Esther Ngan-ling Chow -- ch. 2. Studying development with gender perspectives : from mainstream theories to alternative frameworks / Esther Ngan-ling Chow and Deanna M. Lyter -- pt. II. The process of industrialization : institutional embeddedness, control, and resistance -- ch. 3. Women and work in East Asia / Yin-wah Chu -- ch. 4. Gendered organizations, embodiment, and employment among manufacturing workers in Taiwan / Esther Ngan-ling Chow and Ray-may Hsung -- ch. 5. Power, media representation, and labor dispute : the case of women workers in South Korea / Hyun Mee Kim -- pt. III. The impact of economic restructuring on employment and family -- ch. 6. Women's unemployment, re-employment, and self-employment in China's economic restructuring / Ting Gong -- ch. 7. State women workers in Chinese economic reform : the transformation of management control and firm dependence / Ping Ping -- ch. 8. Gender embeddedness of family strategies : Hong Kong working-class families during economic restructuring / Vivien Hiu-tung Leung -- pt. IV. Migration, household, and gender strategies -- ch. 9. Guests from the tropics : labor practices and foreign workers in Taiwan / Anru Lee -- ch. 10. Fleeing poverty : rural women, expanding marriage markets, and strategies for social mobility in contemporary China / Christina Gilmartin and Lin Tan -- ch. 11. Women's work in international migration / Janet W. Salaff.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-260) and index.

pt. I. EnGendering East Asian development -- ch. 1. Globalization, East Asian development, and gender : a historical overview / Esther Ngan-ling Chow -- ch. 2. Studying development with gender perspectives : from mainstream theories to alternative frameworks / Esther Ngan-ling Chow and Deanna M. Lyter -- pt. II. The process of industrialization : institutional embeddedness, control, and resistance -- ch. 3. Women and work in East Asia / Yin-wah Chu -- ch. 4. Gendered organizations, embodiment, and employment among manufacturing workers in Taiwan / Esther Ngan-ling Chow and Ray-may Hsung -- ch. 5. Power, media representation, and labor dispute : the case of women workers in South Korea / Hyun Mee Kim -- pt. III. The impact of economic restructuring on employment and family -- ch. 6. Women's unemployment, re-employment, and self-employment in China's economic restructuring / Ting Gong -- ch. 7. State women workers in Chinese economic reform : the transformation of management control and firm dependence / Ping Ping -- ch. 8. Gender embeddedness of family strategies : Hong Kong working-class families during economic restructuring / Vivien Hiu-tung Leung -- pt. IV. Migration, household, and gender strategies -- ch. 9. Guests from the tropics : labor practices and foreign workers in Taiwan / Anru Lee -- ch. 10. Fleeing poverty : rural women, expanding marriage markets, and strategies for social mobility in contemporary China / Christina Gilmartin and Lin Tan -- ch. 11. Women's work in international migration / Janet W. Salaff.

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