Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies

<p>The <i>Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies</i> presents up-to-date theoretical and conceptual developments in key areas of the field, taking a multi-disciplinary and comparative approach.</p><p>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:</p><ul> <p> </p> <ul> <li>theorising gender relations;</li> <p> </p> <li>women’s and feminist movements;</li> <p> </p> <li>work, care and migration;</li> <p> </p> <li>family and intergenerational relationships;</li> <p> </p> <li>cultural representation;</li> <p> </p> <li>masculinity; and</li> <p> </p> <li>state, militarism and gender. </li> </ul> </ul><p>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.</p> <p>Introduction <b>Section 1 Theoretical Overview </b>1. The Logics of Gender Construction in Asian Modernities 2. Gender and Heterosexuality in East Asia: Western Concepts and Asian Lives <strong>Section 2 Feminisms and Women’s Movements </strong>3. Korean Women’s Movement: Between Modernization and Globalization 4. Feminisms in Japan since the second wave to the present: its history and achievement 5. Feminist Activism in Hong Kong 6. Feminism in the twentieth century China: Modernity, gender and state <b>Section 3 Gendered Work, Care and Migration </b>7. Making Migrant Care Workers in East Asia 8. The Social Organization of Sex Work in Taiwan 9. Women and Migration in China 10. Formal-care work under the Japanese quasi-market: Towards a care-friendly gender regime 11. Gendered Politics of Work-life balance in South Korea <b>Section 4 Family and Intimate Relationships </b>12. Family Life in China 13. Family and Gender in Taiwan 14. Family Transitions and Family Policy in South Korea 15. Lone Mother Households and Poverty in Japan: New Social Risks, the Social Security System, and Labour Market <b>Section 5 Gender and Cultural Representations </b>16. Gender, Representation and Identity: The Multifold Politics of Japanese Woman Imagery 17. Performing Gender in Chinese Cinema 18. Center Stage: Gender Representations in Taiwan Cinema 19. Sexualising Cinematic border: Gender, Spectatorship and Citizenship in Hong Kong-Mainland Cinema <b>Section 6 Masculinities </b>20. Counting on Women While Not Counting Women’s Personhood: A Critical Analysis of the Masculine Ideal of Self-Made Man in Japan 21. Masculinities in China 22. Masculinities in Korea: How Male Portrayals are Changed in Korean News Magazines’ Advertisements from the 1970s to the 1990s <b>Section 7 State, Militarism and Gender </b>23. Beyond the Boundaries of Nationalism, Christianity, and Feminism: South Korean Women’s Movement against U.S. Military Prostitution 24. From Recognition of vulnerabilities to Caring Democracy: A Care Analysis of the Reconciliation Process of the "Comfort Women" Issue in Japan</p>