Asia's new mothers : crafting gender roles and childcare networks in East and Southeast Asian societies /

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"Asia's New Mothers, through a focus on childcare, offers a comparative regional analysis, unique in English-language sources, of changing gender roles in East and Southeast Asia." "Taking into consideration the historical and cultural differences and similarities among the socie...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Ochiai, Emiko, 1958-, Molony, Barbara
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Folkestone, UK : Global Oriental, 2008.
Subjects:
Sex role > East Asia.
Sex role > Southeast Asia.
Child care > East Asia.
Child care > Southeast Asia.
Mothers > East Asia.
Mothers > Southeast Asia.
Rôle selon le sexe > Asie du Sud-Est.
Mères > Asie du Sud-Est.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Child care
Mothers
Sex role
Geschlechterrolle
Kind
Erziehung
East Asia
Southeast Asia
Ostasien
Südostasien
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Researching gender and childcare in contemporary Asia / Emiko Ochiai
  • Gender roles and childcare networks in East and Southeast Asian societies / Emiko Ochiai [and others]
  • - A comparative study of childcare and motherhood in South Korea and Japan / Yamane Mari & Hong Sang Ook
  • Korean women's life courses and self perceptions: isomorphism of "family centeredness" / Park Keong-suk
  • Housewifeization and changes in women's life course in Bangkok / Hashimoto (Seki) Hiroko
  • Modern population trends, M-curve labor-force participation and the family / Kua Wongboonsin & Patcharawalai Wongboonsin
  • Foreign domestic workers in Singapore / Ueno Kayoko
  • The birth of the housewife in contemporary Asia: new mothers in the era of globalization / Emiko Ochiai
  • Afterword / Barbara Molony.

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