Asian Women and Intimate Work:

Name: Asian Women and Intimate Work:
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ISBN: 9789004226920

ISBN-10: 9004226923

ISBN-13: 9789004226920

Edition: 2012

Authors: Emiko Ochiai, Koaru Aoyama

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Book details

List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Binding: Cloth Text
Pages: 240
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



List of Figures, Photographs and Tables


Introduction: Intimate Work and the Construction of Asian Women




Imagining Intimate Work



Housewives' Work / Mothers' Work: The Changing Position of Housework in Dutch Society




The "Housewife" and Housework in the Indian Urban Middle Classes




Multiple Faces of the Good Wife/Wise Mother



Troubles of the "New Women" in the Emergence of Modern Korea: Focusing on the Interrelationship between "Women's Liberation" and the Image of "Wise Mother and Good Wife"




Selling Modernity: Housewives as Portrayed in Yuefenpai (Calendar Posters) and Magazine Advertisements in Shanghai of the 1920s and 1930s




The Gender Norms of Chinese Women in the Transitional Market Economy: Research Interviews with Wives in Three Urban Centers




"To be Good at Public and Domestic Work, I Need Three Heads and Six Hands": The Dilemma of Vietnamese "Modern" Women




Wives and Workers Crossing Borders



From Farmers' Daughters to Foreign Wives: Marriage, Migration and Gender in the Sending Communities of Vietnam




Commercially Arranged Marriage Migration: The Agency and Inner Struggle of Chinese Women




Strategies of Resistance among Filipina and Indonesian Domestic Workers in Singapore




Moving from Modernisation to Globalisation: Migrant Sex Workers in Japan




The Role of Multicultural Families in South Korean Immigration Policy



Index