Working and Mothering in Asia: Images, Ideologies and Identities

ISBN-13: 9789971693480 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 260 str.

Theresa W. Devasahayam; Brenda S. A. Yeoh

Opis

Large numbers of women in Asia engage in paid work, in many cases outside the home. Many of these women also continue to shoulder the home and family responsibilities that social and cultural norms define as their primary concern. In an effort to balance the conflicting demands of these roles, women in various Asian societies are negotiating, contesting, and reconfiguring motherhood. Their experiences provide an important counterpoint to the lives white middle-class North Americans, the focus of much of the previous research relating to this subject.