ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies presents up-to-date theoretical and conceptual developments in key areas of the field, taking a multi-disciplinary and comparative approach.
Featuring contributions by leading scholars of Gender Studies to provide a cutting-edge overview of the field, this handbook includes examples from China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong and covers the following themes:
- theorising gender relations;
- women’s and feminist movements;
- work, care and migration;
- family and intergenerational relationships;
- cultural representation;
- masculinity; and
- state, militarism and gender.
This handbook is essential reading for scholars and students of Gender and Women’s Studies, as well as East Asian societies, social policy and culture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section I|46 pages
Theorising gender relations in East Asia
part Section II|64 pages
Variety in women’s and feminist movements in East Asia
chapter 4|20 pages
Feminisms in Japan since the second wave to the present
part Section III|76 pages
Gendered work, care and migration
chapter 10|16 pages
Formal-care work under the Japanese quasi-market
part Section IV|70 pages
Traditions and transition of family and intergenerational relationships
chapter 15|14 pages
Lone mother households and poverty in Japan
part Section V|65 pages
Politics of gendered cultural representation
chapter 16|16 pages
Gender, representation and identity
chapter 19|14 pages
Sexualising cinematic border
part Section VI|52 pages
Shifting yet surviving ideals and practice of masculinity
chapter 20|17 pages
Counting on women while not counting women’s personhood
chapter 22|16 pages
Masculinities in Korea
part Section VII|36 pages
State, militarism and gender
