Author: Rita S. GallinPublisher:
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Category : Job stress
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Women and Work in Rural Taiwan
Author: Rita S. GallinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Job stress
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Women and the Family in Rural Taiwan
Author: Margery WolfWomen and the Family in Rural Taiwan
Author: Margery WolfPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804780780
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Studies of Chinese society commonly emphasizze men's roles and functions, a not unreasonable approach to a society with patrilineal kinship structure. But this emphasis has left many important gaps in our knowledge of Chinese life. This study seeks to fill some of these gaps by examining the ways rural Taiwanese women manipulate men and each other in the pursuit of their personal goals. The source of a woman's power, her home in a social structure dominated by men, is what the author calls the uterine family, a de facto social unity consisting of a mother and her children. The first four chapters are devoted to general background material: a brief historical sketch of Taiwan and a description fo the settings in which the author's observations were made; the history of a particular family; the relation of Chinese women to the Chinese kinship system; and the interrelationships among women in the community. The remaining ten chapters take up in detail the successive stages of the Taiwanese woman's life cycle: infancy, childhood, engagement, marriage, motherhood, and old age. Throught the book the author presents detailed information on such topics as marriage negotiations, childbirth, child training practices, and the organization of women's groups.
Women in the New Taiwan
Author: Catherine FarrisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000161439
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Taiwan's rapid socio-economic and political transformation has given rise to a gender-conscious middle class that is attempting to redefine the roles of women in society, to restructure relationship patterns, and to organize in groups outside the family unit. This book examines internal psychological processes and external societal processes as the feminist movement in Taiwan expands and new gender roles are explored. The contributors represent a cross section of different disciplines - history, anthropology, and sociology - and different generations of China/Taiwan scholars. They place the issues facing Taiwan's women's movement in social, political, and economic contexts. The book examines gender relations, the role of women in Chinese society, and issues related to women in China throughout history. Feminism and gender relations are also viewed from the context of film and literature. The authors look at the contemporary roles that women play in Taiwan's work force today, how the sexes perceive each other in the workplace, and more.
The Impact of Development on Women's Work and Status
Author: Rita S. GallinPublisher:
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Category : Hsin Hsing (Taiwan)
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Women's Work in Rural China
Author: Tamara JackaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521599283
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Based on interviews with rural Chinese women, officials and social scientists, and on Chinese newspapers, journals and academic reports. Analyses the situation of women of Han nationality with rural household registration, most of whom worked in townships and villages, but some of whom worked in cities. Delineates patterns in gender divisions of labour in the context of economic reform.
Impact of Development on Women's Work and Status: a Case Study from Taiwan
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Research paper presenting a case study of the impact of economic development on the economic role and social status of rural women in a village in Taiwan, China - reviews development planning; examines the traditional family; evolution of the rural community, (incl. Men rural migration and female nonfarm employment); and analyses failure of women to improve their status in the social structure. References.
Rural Industrialization and Chinese Women
Author: Rita S. GallinPublisher:
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Category : Married women
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Rural Industrialization and Chinese Women: a Case Study from Taiwan
Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Working paper on the contribution of rural women woman workers to rural industry, industrialization and contemporary capitalist economic development in Taiwan, China - based on a field study carried out in 1979 in one village, describes the traditional family, arranged marriages, and shift in power between mothers-in-law and daughters-in- law brought about by nonfarm employment. References and statistical tables.
Everyday Gender at Work in Taiwan
Author: Ting-Fang ChinPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811073651
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This book explores professional women’s experiences of gender in the Taiwanese workplace in the wake of the rapid transformation of the country's economy, identifying attitudes to gender in a heterosexist and heteronormative social culture. It contributes to understanding women’s relationships with their superiors and peers at work and the strategies that they have used to negotiate with these role partners to achieve their own personal and career goals. It notes that compared to women in other East Asian economies, women in Taiwan have a more consistent career trajectory and that the local women’s movement and activism has brought Taiwan a long way in improving women’s employment rights, but argues that it is too soon to claim that gender inequality has been banished from the workplace. Based on qualitative, in-depth interviews, the book explores the participants’ accounts, gendered and heteronormative practices at work, in two contexts: organisational management and everyday social encounters. It investigates gender inequality at work by focusing on women employees’ everyday experiences, and examines structural and institutional factors affecting gendered arrangements, as well as personal experiences in negotiating gender. A key read for students and scholars in gender and employment studies, this book will also be of interest to those working within the field of employment sociology and organisational culture.