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

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (554 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.42/095
• Soggetto topico: Women in development - East Asia; Sex role - Economic aspects - East Asia
• Soggetto geografico: East Asia Economic conditions
• Altri autori: ChowEsther Ngan-ling <1943->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Transforming gender and development in East Asia
• ISBN: 0-415-92492-8; 1-315-81132-4; 1-317-79519-9; 1-317-79520-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816357403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II