Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies

ISBN-13: 9781138959897 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 436 str.

Jieyu Liu; Junko Yamashita

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This Handbook contains interdisciplinary contributions from leading academics to provide a cutting edge overview of scholarship on gender in Greater China, Japan and South Korea. Contributions cover a wide range of gender related issues in East Asia; including the formation of gender norms, women's suffrage and feminist movements, the impact of gender on work, health and sexuality and depictions of masculinity and femininity in culture and media. This survey is essential reading for scholars and students working on East Asia as well as in related interdisciplinary fields that focus on women and gender from comparative and transnational perspectives.

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Introduction  Section 1 Theoretical Overview  1. The Logics of Gender Construction in Asian Modernities  2. Gender and Heterosexuality in East Asia: Western Concepts and Asian Lives  Section 2 Feminisms and Women’s Movements  3. Korean Women’s Movement: Between Modernization and Globalization  4. Feminisms in Japan since the second wave to the present: its history and achievement  5. Feminist Activism in Hong Kong  6. Feminism in the twentieth century China: Modernity, gender and state  Section 3 Gendered Work, Care and Migration  7. Making Migrant Care Workers in East Asia  8. The Social Organization of Sex Work in Taiwan  9. Women and Migration in China  10. Formal-care work under the Japanese quasi-market: Towards a care-friendly gender regime  11. Gendered Politics of Work-life balance in South Korea  Section 4 Family and Intimate Relationships  12. Family Life in China  13. Family and Gender in Taiwan  14. Family Transitions and Family Policy in South Korea  15. Lone Mother Households and Poverty in Japan: New Social Risks, the Social Security System, and Labour Market  Section 5 Gender and Cultural Representations  16. Gender, Representation and Identity: The Multifold Politics of Japanese Woman Imagery  17. Performing Gender in Chinese Cinema  18. Center Stage: Gender Representations in Taiwan Cinema  19. Sexualising Cinematic border: Gender, Spectatorship and Citizenship in Hong Kong-Mainland Cinema  Section 6 Masculinities  20. Counting on Women While Not Counting Women’s Personhood: A Critical Analysis of the Masculine Ideal of Self-Made Man in Japan  21. Masculinities in China  22. Masculinities in Korea: How Male Portrayals are Changed in Korean News Magazines’ Advertisements from the 1970s to the 1990s  Section 7 State, Militarism and Gender  23. Beyond the Boundaries of Nationalism, Christianity, and Feminism: South Korean Women’s Movement against U.S. Military Prostitution  24. From Recognition of vulnerabilities to Caring Democracy: A Care Analysis of the Reconciliation Process of the "Comfort Women" Issue in Japan