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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Ochiai Emiko and Aoyama Kaoru -- Introduction: Intimate Work and the Construction of Asian Women / OCHIAI Emiko -- Housewives’ Work / Mothers’ Work: The Changing Position of Housework in Dutch Society / NAKATANI Ayami -- The “Housewife” and Housework in the Indian Urban Middle Classes / OSHIKAWA Fumiko -- 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” / SUH Ji Young -- Selling Modernity: Housewives as Portrayed in Yuefenpai (Calendar Posters) and Magazine Advertisements in Shanghai of the 1920's and 1930's / WU Yongmei -- The Gender Norms of Chinese Women in the Transitional Market Economy: Research Interviews with Wives in Three Urban Centers / ZHENG Yang -- “To be Good at Public and Domestic Work, I Need Three Heads and Six Hands”: The Dilemma of Vietnamese “Modern” Women / KHUAT Thu Hong , BUI Thu Huong and LE Bach Duong -- From Farmers’ Daughters to Foreign Wives: Marriage, Migration and Gender in the Sending Communities of Vietnam / Danièle BÉLANGER , TRAN Giang Linh , LE Bach Duong and KHUAT Thu Hong -- Commercially Arranged Marriage Migration: The Agency and Inner Struggle of Chinese Women / HAO Hongfang -- Strategies of Resistance among Filipina and Indonesian Domestic Workers in Singapore / UENO Kayako -- Moving from Modernisation to Globalisation: Migrant Sex Workers in Japan / AOYAMA Kaoru -- The Role of Multicultural Families in South Korean Immigration Policy / LEE Hye-kyung -- Index / Ochiai Emiko and Aoyama Kaoru.