Gender and Welfare States in East Asia

Confucianism or Gender Equality?
2014. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-230-27908-7
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3747 g

Contributors address questions about gender equality in a Confucian context across a wide and varied social policy landscape, from Korea and Taiwan, where Confucian culture is deeply embedded, through China, with its transformations from Confucianism to communism and back, to the mixed cultural environments of Hong Kong and Japan.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sung, Sirin

Pascall, Gillian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landespolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Gender and Welfare States in East Asia; Sirin Sung and Gillian Pascall 2. Work-family Balance Issues and Policies in Korea: Towards an Egalitarian Regime?; Sirin Sung 3. Rhetoric or Reality? Peripheral Status of Women's Bureaux in the Korean Gender Regime; Sook-Yeon Won 4. Continuity and Change: Comparing Work and Care Reconciliation of Two Generations of Women in Taiwan; Jessie Wu 5. Gender, Social Policy and Older Women with Disabilities in Rural China; Xiaoyuan Shang, Karen R. Fisher and Ping Guo 6. Confucian Welfare: A barrier to the Gender Mainstreaming of Domestic Violence Policy in Hong Kong; Lai Ching Leung 7. Emerging Culture Wars: Backlash Against 'Gender Freedom'; Kimio Ito 8. Prime Ministers' Discourse in Japan's Reforms since the 1980s: Traditionalization of Modernity rather than Confucianism; Emiko Ochiai and Kenichi Johshita 9. Conclusion: Confucianism or Gender Equality?; Gillian Pascall and Sirin Sung

Über Autor(innen)

Sook-Yeon Won, Ewha University in Seoul, Korea
Shu-yun Wu (Jessie), National Chi Nan University, Taiwan
Xiaoyuan Shang, University of New South Wales, Australia
Karen Fisher, University of New South Wales, Australia
Guo Ping, China Research Center On Ageing (CRCA), China
Leung Lai Ching, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Kimio ITO, Kyoto University, Japan
Emiko Ochiai, Kyoto University, Japan
Kenichi Johshita, Kyoto University, Japan