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Women and the Family in Rural Taiwan
Women's Work in Rural China
Author: Tamara Jacka
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780521599283
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based on interviews with rural Chinese women, officials and social scientists, and on Chinese newspapers, journals and academic reports. Analyses the situation of women of Han nationality with rural household registration, most of whom worked in townships and villages, but some of whom worked in cities. Delineates patterns in gender divisions of labour in the context of economic reform.
Rural Industrialization and Chinese Women
Women and the Family in Rural Taiwan
Author: Margery Wolf
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1972-06
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780804780780
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Studies of Chinese society commonly emphasizze men's roles and functions, a not unreasonable approach to a society with patrilineal kinship structure. But this emphasis has left many important gaps in our knowledge of Chinese life. This study seeks to fill some of these gaps by examining the ways rural Taiwanese women manipulate men and each other in the pursuit of their personal goals. The source of a woman's power, her home in a social structure dominated by men, is what the author calls the uterine family, a de facto social unity consisting of a mother and her children. The first four chapters are devoted to general background material: a brief historical sketch of Taiwan and a description fo the settings in which the author's observations were made; the history of a particular family; the relation of Chinese women to the Chinese kinship system; and the interrelationships among women in the community. The remaining ten chapters take up in detail the successive stages of the Taiwanese woman's life cycle: infancy, childhood, engagement, marriage, motherhood, and old age. Throught the book the author presents detailed information on such topics as marriage negotiations, childbirth, child training practices, and the organization of women's groups.
The Impact of Development on Women's Work and Status
Women in the New Taiwan
Author: Catherine Farris
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-08-26
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 1000161439
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Taiwan's rapid socio-economic and political transformation has given rise to a gender-conscious middle class that is attempting to redefine the roles of women in society, to restructure relationship patterns, and to organize in groups outside the family unit. This book examines internal psychological processes and external societal processes as the feminist movement in Taiwan expands and new gender roles are explored. The contributors represent a cross section of different disciplines - history, anthropology, and sociology - and different generations of China/Taiwan scholars. They place the issues facing Taiwan's women's movement in social, political, and economic contexts. The book examines gender relations, the role of women in Chinese society, and issues related to women in China throughout history. Feminism and gender relations are also viewed from the context of film and literature. The authors look at the contemporary roles that women play in Taiwan's work force today, how the sexes perceive each other in the workplace, and more.
Factory Women in Taiwan
Author: Lydia Kung
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An important study of Taiwan's first generation of working women, documenting their and their families' views of their employment and the effects that wage earning has on the status and lives of these women.
Working Women and State Policies in Taiwan
Author: Fen-ling Chen
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780312234621
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book concentrates on exploring the changing relationship between the state and working women in Taiwan by incorporating social, economic, political, and ideological factors into the historical analysis. It traces the history of state policies on women's employment, the impact of family and gender ideology on women's employment, women's role in capitalist development, and the influence of women's movements on policy-making in Taiwan. Finally, it analyzes the Taiwanese welfare regime in a gender-critical way.
Women Migrants in Southern China and Taiwan
Author: Beatrice Zani
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-11-25
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1000485633
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book, based on extensive original research, explores the lives, the migratory experiences and the social, economic, and emotional practices of Chinese migrant women during their migrations and mobilities in China, from China to Taiwan, from Taiwan to China and in between the two countries. It illustrates how women on the move experience social contempt, misrecognition and economic marginalisation; how women migrants seek autonomy, economic independence, upward social mobility and modernity, but discover the Chinese inegalitarian social order and labour regimes which produce obstacles and impede their ambitions; and how old and new forms of subalternity are reproduced. Overall, the book emphasises what it feels like for the women migrants as they negotiate their way at the crossroad between subalternity and resistance, between subordinated labour and independent, digital entrepreneurship, and between an inegalitarian labour market and new, online opportunities for business and commerce.
