Transforming gender and development in East Asia / / edited by Esther Ngan-ling Chow

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790743803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2002
• ISBN: 0-415-92492-8; 1-315-81132-4; 1-317-79519-9; 1-317-79520-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (554 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): ChowEsther Ngan-ling <1943->
• Disciplina: 305.42/095
• Soggetti: Women in development - East Asia; Sex role - Economic aspects - East Asia; East Asia Economic conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-260) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: part I. Engendering East Asian development -- part II. The process of industrialization : institutional embeddedness, control, and resistance -- part III. The impact of economic restructuring -- part IV. Migration, household, and gender strategies.
• Sommario/riassunto: Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia brings together a collection of original essays from top scholars in the United States and Asia to explore the centrality of gender in the process of economic development in East Asia. Contributors demonstrate through ethnography, personal narratives, field observation, and in-depth interviews the essential parts women have played in the national growth, economic restructuring, and industrialization of East Asian countries, including South Korea, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and China.