Gendered Work In Asian Cities

Download Gendered Work In Asian Cities full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Gendered Work In Asian Cities ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Gendered Work in Asian Cities

Author : Ann Brooks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317129644
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Gendered Work in Asian Cities by : Ann Brooks

Download or read book Gendered Work in Asian Cities written by Ann Brooks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do the new Asian economies encourage gender equality? Ann Brooks provides a unique insight into this question by assessing the impact of the new economy and the changing labour market on women in Asia. Theoretical debates around globalization, gender and social change are combined with empirical research on professional women in two cosmopolitan cities: Hong Kong and Singapore. The author's research shows that even in such cosmopolitan cities where women tend to have a strong advantage there is a 'new dynamic of inequality'. This makes the examination of women's labour market participation and ambition in these environments very different to previous research. The research is set against the backdrop of Southeast Asia more generally and international comparisons are also drawn. It will be of interest to scholars in sociology, economics, gender studies, business studies and Asian studies.

Gender Trends in Southeast Asia

Author : Theresa W. Devasahayam
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN 13 : 9812309551
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (123 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Gender Trends in Southeast Asia by : Theresa W. Devasahayam

Download or read book Gender Trends in Southeast Asia written by Theresa W. Devasahayam and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2009 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Urban Spaces and Gender in Asia

Author : Divya Upadhyaya Joshi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030364941
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Urban Spaces and Gender in Asia by : Divya Upadhyaya Joshi

Download or read book Urban Spaces and Gender in Asia written by Divya Upadhyaya Joshi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the relationship between place and identity, this book gathers 30 papers that highlight experiences from throughout the Asia-Pacific region. The countries profiled include China, India, Japan, Indonesia, and Thailand. Readers will gain a better understanding of how urbanization is affecting gender equity in Asian-Pacific cities in the 21st century. The contributing authors examine the practical implications of urban development and link them with the broader perspective of urban ecology. They consider how visceral experiences connect with structural and discursive spheres. Further, they investigate how multiple, interconnected relations of power shape gender (in)equity in urban ecologies, and address such issues as construction of Kawaii as an idealized femininity, diversity among homosexuals in urban India, and single women and rental housing. In turn, the authors present hitherto unexplored sub-themes from historiography and existentialist literary perspectives, and share a vast range of multi-disciplinary views on issues concerning gendered dispossession due to the impact of urban policy and governance. The topics covered include socio-spatial and ethnic segregation in urban spaces; intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, and caste in urban spaces; and identity-based marginalization, including that of LGBT groups. Overall, the book brings together perspectives from the humanities and the social sciences, and represents a valuable contribution to the vital theoretical and practical debates on urbanism and gender equity.

Women’s Working Lives in East Asia

Author : Mary C. Brinton
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804743549
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (435 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Women’s Working Lives in East Asia by : Mary C. Brinton

Download or read book Women’s Working Lives in East Asia written by Mary C. Brinton and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Asian Cities, Migrant Labor and Contested Spaces

Author : Tai-Chee Wong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136923799
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Asian Cities, Migrant Labor and Contested Spaces by : Tai-Chee Wong

Download or read book Asian Cities, Migrant Labor and Contested Spaces written by Tai-Chee Wong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how migration plays a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the rapidly changing cities of Asia. The contributors examine the roles and effects of different forms of migration in the arena of urban change, considering low-skilled domestic migrants, professional transnational migrant and legal and illegal international migrants.

Gender, Emotions and Labour Markets - Asian and Western Perspectives

Author : Ann Brooks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136848185
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Gender, Emotions and Labour Markets - Asian and Western Perspectives by : Ann Brooks

Download or read book Gender, Emotions and Labour Markets - Asian and Western Perspectives written by Ann Brooks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of emotional labour has largely emerged from the analysis of organizations in the West. However, little has been written about the issue of what defines emotional labour and how it is configured in different cultural contexts. This book addresses this gap in the literature and considers how, and in what ways, emotional labour characterises formal and informal work environments in Southeast Asia.

Gender in Modern East Asia

Author : Barbara Molony
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429973446
Total Pages : 845 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Gender in Modern East Asia by : Barbara Molony

Download or read book Gender in Modern East Asia written by Barbara Molony and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 845 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, Work, and Family in a Chinese Economic Zone

Author : Nancy E Riley
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400755244
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Gender, Work, and Family in a Chinese Economic Zone by : Nancy E Riley

Download or read book Gender, Work, and Family in a Chinese Economic Zone written by Nancy E Riley and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the dynamics of power within the families of married women who have migrated from rural areas to China's Dalian Economic Zone. Engaging the question of whether waged work gives women power in their families, this ethnographic study finds that women do indeed use their new positions and urban status to negotiate their family status. However, women use these new resources not necessarily to promote their own individual liberation, but rather to strengthen their contribution as wives and, especially, as mothers. Thus, this new modernity provides a space for the re-inscribing of traditional roles, even as it may work to give women new-found power within their families. How and why this process occurs is related to the dual inequalities these women face as rural migrants and as women.

Gender, Work and Tourism

Author : M Thea Sinclair
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134837097
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Gender, Work and Tourism by : M Thea Sinclair

Download or read book Gender, Work and Tourism written by M Thea Sinclair and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender, Work and Tourism examines the central role played by women in the tourism industry. It discusses the nature of their work and the ways in which tourism creates tensions between the attitude and conduct of tourists and the beliefs and behaviour of local women. Among the areas explored are: the segmentation of tourism work in Northern Cyprus; women's and men's work in Bali and the division of social and political power; gendered tourism work in Mexico and the Philippines; material and ideological changes in sex tourism in South-East Asia and the exploitation of South-East Asian women in Japan.

Asian Women and Intimate Work

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004258086
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Asian Women and Intimate Work by :

Download or read book Asian Women and Intimate Work written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Asian women are often labelled with biased stereotypical images, ranging from “subordinate housewife” to “migrant domestic maid,” and “overseas bride.” Asian women, in fact, are being constructed as “women among women.” These feminine roles are related to the various activities that women perform for others in intimate relationships both within and outside the family. This book comprises contributions from a distinguished group of international researchers who examine the historical development of “new women" and “good wife, wise mother,” women’s roles in socialist and transitional modernity and the transnational migration of domestic and sex workers as well as wives.

Social Theory in Contemporary Asia

Author : Ann Brooks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113695743X
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Social Theory in Contemporary Asia by : Ann Brooks

Download or read book Social Theory in Contemporary Asia written by Ann Brooks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-07-14 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophical debates around reflexivity, identity and intimacy have preoccupied Western social and cultural theorists since the 1990s, and this book examines them in relation to the Chinese diasporic cultures in Asia. The debates are set within the context of globalization, and its impact on cultural, gendered and ethnic identities in late modernity.

Women and Educational Leadership

Author : Margaret Grogan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470933496
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Women and Educational Leadership by : Margaret Grogan

Download or read book Women and Educational Leadership written by Margaret Grogan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book presents a new way of looking at leadership that is anchored in research on women leaders in education. The authors examine how successful women in education lead and offer suggestions and ideas for developing and honing these exemplary leadership practices. Women and Educational Leadership shows how the qualities that characterize women's approaches to leadership differ from traditional approaches?whether the traditional leader is a woman or a man. The authors reveal that women leaders are more collaborative by nature and demonstrate a commitment to social justice. They tend to bring an instructional focus to leadership, include spiritual dimensions in their work, and strive for balance between the personal and professional. This important book offers a new model of leadership that shifts away from the traditional heroic notion of leadership to the collective account of leadership that focuses on leadership for a specific purpose—like social justice. The authors include illustrative examples of leaders who have brought diverse groups to work toward common ground. They also show how leadership is a way to facilitate and support the work of organizational members. The ideas and suggestions presented throughout the book can help the next generation fulfill the promise of a new tradition of leadership. Women and Educational Leadership is part of the Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education series.

Gender and Globalization in Asia and the Pacific

Author : Kathy E. Ferguson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824831594
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Gender and Globalization in Asia and the Pacific by : Kathy E. Ferguson

Download or read book Gender and Globalization in Asia and the Pacific written by Kathy E. Ferguson and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is globalization? How is it gendered? How does it work in Asia and the Pacific? The authors of the sixteen original and innovative essays presented here take fresh stock of globalization’s complexities. They pursue critical feminist inquiry about women, gender, and sexualities and produce original insights into changing life patterns in Asian and Pacific Island societies. Each essay puts the lives and struggles of women at the center of its examination while weaving examples of global circuits in Asian and Pacific societies into a world frame of analysis. The work is generated from within Asian and Pacific spaces, bringing to the fore local voices and claims to knowledge. The geographic emphasis on Asia/Pacific highlights the complexity of globalizing practices among specific people whose dilemmas come alive on these pages. Although the book focuses on global, gendered flows, it expands its investigation to include the media and the arts, intellectual resources, activist agendas, and individual life stories. First-rate ethnographies and interviews reach beyond generalizations and bring Pacific and Asian women and men alive in their struggles against globalization. Globalization cannot be summed up in a neat political agenda but must be actively contested and creatively negotiated. Taking feminist political thinking beyond simple oppositions, the authors ask specific questions about how global practices work, how they come to be, who benefits, and what is at stake. Contributors: Nancie Caraway, Steve Derné, Cynthia Enloe, Kathy Ferguson, Maria Ibarra, Gwyn Kirk, Sally Merry, Virginia Metaxas, Min Dongchao, Monique Mironesco, Rhacel Parrenas, Lucinda Peach, Vivian Price, Jyoti Puri, Judith Raiskin, Nancy Riley, Saskia Sassen, Teresia Teaiwa, Chris Yano, Yau Ching.

Narrating Intersectional Perspectives Across Social Scales

Author : Viola Thimm
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000569551
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Narrating Intersectional Perspectives Across Social Scales by : Viola Thimm

Download or read book Narrating Intersectional Perspectives Across Social Scales written by Viola Thimm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a guide to researching intersectionality. Clear and jargon-free, this book introduces a narrative-driven, scalar, and polyvocal approach to the antiracist–feminist framework. Thimm shows students how intersectionality can be used as a methodology, especially in the analysis of multiple ‘identities’. This text considers complex social inequalities as parallel to one another – not only gender, race, class, and age, but also ethnicity, sibling seniority, religion, or educational attainment. Readers will learn how to investigate, in a methodologically structured way, the interwoven realities of life for different people and population groups simultaneously permeated by marginalization and dominance. With multiple-social-scale analysis and deep discussion of how to conduct data collection, evaluation, and write-up, this book will be of interest to students, early-career scholars, and faculties teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in women’s, gender, queer, and ethnic studies. Courses in anthropology, sociology, political science and, beyond that, engaged research on how people are marginalized or privileged given their axes of identification, will also find the book an invaluable resource.

Gender Equality in Urban Environmental Management in Selected Southeast Asian Cities

Author : Kyoko Kusakabe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789748257372
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (573 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Gender Equality in Urban Environmental Management in Selected Southeast Asian Cities by : Kyoko Kusakabe

Download or read book Gender Equality in Urban Environmental Management in Selected Southeast Asian Cities written by Kyoko Kusakabe and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women of Asia

Author : Mehrangiz Najafizadeh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315458438
Total Pages : 1128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Women of Asia by : Mehrangiz Najafizadeh

Download or read book Women of Asia written by Mehrangiz Najafizadeh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Female Chinese Bankers in the Asia Pacific

Author : Wai-wan Vivien Chan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000167348
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Female Chinese Bankers in the Asia Pacific by : Wai-wan Vivien Chan

Download or read book Female Chinese Bankers in the Asia Pacific written by Wai-wan Vivien Chan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the simultaneous Asianisation and feminisation of mid-level management in the financial services sector in world and global cities in the Asia-Pacific. Chan draws on 50 in-depth interviews with ethnically Chinese female professionals working in middle or upper management positions in Sydney, Hong Kong, Shanghai and four other cities in Australia and China. She analyses the interplay between geographical location, gender and career mobility. Growing numbers of transnational Chinese live and work in major cities in developed countries. In this context, a new social, economic ecosystem is being created for and by female professionals working in an elite sector of the service industry across the Asia-Pacific region. Chan examines the nature of this ecosystem through an examination of the lives and work of such women – their role in forming multinational networks in financial service firms, their collective work situation, their daily challenges, and their coping strategies in the workplace and at home. A compelling comparative study, which will be of great interest to scholars and students looking at the role of gender and ethnicity in globalisation.