Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies

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; andstate 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.