Asian women and intimate work / / edited by Ochiai Emiko, Aoyama Kaoru.

• Superior document: The intimate and the public in Asian and global perspectives, Volume 3
• TeilnehmendeR: Ochiai, Emiko, 1958-; Aoyama, Kaoru, 1962-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, 2013.; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Intimate and the public in Asian and global perspectives ; v. 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (330 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Ajia josei to shinmitsusei no rōdō. English.; Preliminary Material /; Introduction: Intimate Work and the Construction of Asian Women /; Housewives’ Work / Mothers’ Work: The Changing Position of Housework in Dutch Society /; The “Housewife” and Housework in the Indian Urban Middle Classes /; Troubles of the “New Women” in the Emergence of Modern Korea: Focusing on the Interrelationship between “Women’s Liberation” and the Image of “Wise Mother and Good Wife” /; Selling Modernity: Housewives as Portrayed in Yuefenpai (Calendar Posters) and Magazine Advertisements in Shanghai of the 1920's and 1930's /; The Gender Norms of Chinese Women in the Transitional Market Economy: Research Interviews with Wives in Three Urban Centers /; “To be Good at Public and Domestic Work, I Need Three Heads and Six Hands”: The Dilemma of Vietnamese “Modern” Women /; From Farmers’ Daughters to Foreign Wives: Marriage, Migration and Gender in the Sending Communities of Vietnam /; Commercially Arranged Marriage Migration: The Agency and Inner Struggle of Chinese Women /; Strategies of Resistance among Filipina and Indonesian Domestic Workers in Singapore /; Moving from Modernisation to Globalisation: Migrant Sex Workers in Japan /; The Role of Multicultural Families in South Korean Immigration Policy /; Index /; Ajia josei to shinmitsusei no rōdō.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004258086
• ISSN: 2213-0608
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Ochiai Emiko, Aoyama Kaoru.

Winner of the 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Asian women are often labelled with biased stereotypical images, ranging from “subordinate housewife” to “migrant domestic maid,” and “overseas bride.” Asian women, in fact, are being constructed as “women among women.” These feminine roles are related to the various activities that women perform for others in intimate relationships both within and outside the family. This book comprises contributions from a distinguished group of international researchers who examine the historical development of “new women\' and “good wife, wise mother,” women’s roles in socialist and transitional modernity and the transnational migration of domestic and sex workers as well as wives.