Women, the Family, and Policy
Author: Esther Ngan-ling Chow
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1994-06-07
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780791417867
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The authors highlight how structural circumstances in countries with various degrees of industrialization are associated with specific policies. The analyses of womens experiences reveal the variety of ways in which private patriarchy in families combines with public patriarchy in economies and states to create a system of domination which subordinates women. The authors detail how gender is constructed under specific political, economic, and cultural circumstances, and seek to understand how state policies with differing sensitivities to womens issues have produced mixed outcomes for women and their families in the process of economic development.