Asia's new mothers : crafting gender roles and childcare networks in East and Southeast Asian societies / edited by Emiko Ochiai and Barbara Molony
Imprint
Folkestone : Global Oriental, 2008
Descript
xvi, 207 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
CONTENT
Researching gender and children in contempoprary Asia / Emiko Ochiai -- Gender roles and Children networks in East and Southeast Asian societies / Emiko Ochiai -- A comparative study of childcare and motherhood in South Korea and Japan / Yamane Mari and Hong Sang Ook -- Korean women's life courses and self perceptions: isomorphism of "family centeredness" / Park Keong-Suk -- Housewifization and changes in women's life course in Bangkok / Hashimoto (Seki) Hiroko -- Modern population trends, M-Curve labor-force participation and the family / Kua Wongboonsin and Patcharawalai Wongboonsiri -- Foreign domestic workers in Singapore / Ueno Kayoko -- The birth of the housewife in contemporary Asia: new mothers in the era of globalization / Emiko Ochiai