Rethinking Representations of Asian Women : Changes, Continuity, and Everyday Life /: Changes, Continuity, and Everyday Life. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Noriko Ijichi, Atsufumi Kato, Ryoko Sakurada.
• Editors: Dr, Ijichi, Noriko; Dr, Kato, Atsufumi; Dr, Sakurada, Ryoko
• Contents: List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Pluralizing Images, the Sphere of Everyday Life, and the Agency of Relatedness: For Representative Interventions for Women in Asia; Noriko Ijichi, Atsufumi Kato, and Ryoko Sakurada; 1. The Mother's Identity of Korean Diaspora Women in Japan; Jung-Eun Hong; 2. On Encouraging Mothers of Multiple Children through the Order of the Mother Glorious in Mongolia; Turmunh Odontuya; 3. Imperial Japan and the Diving Women (Chamsu) of Jeju Island, South Korea; Noriko Ijichi; 4. Everyday Practices of Immigrant Vietnamese Women in Japan in Obtaining Ingredients for the Food of Their Homeland; Erina Seto-Suh; 5. Divorced Newcomer Korean Women in Japan: The Decision to Remain in Japan and Lifestyle Adjustments; Dukin Lim; 6. Crafting Religious Selves in Transnational Space: Japanese Women Who Converted to Islam upon Marrying a Pakistani Migrant; Masako Kudo; 7. Working in the City and Rearing Children in the Hometown: Women-centered Relationships of a Patriarchal Chinese Family in Peninsular Malaysia; Ryoko Sakurada; 8. A Concerned Mother of the Souls in the House: The Agency of Vietnamese Elderly Women who Live Alone in their Home Villages; Atsufumi Kato; 9. A Regime where the Woman's Voice is Heard: Guanluoyin as a Form of Abortion Ritual in Contemporary Taiwan; Grace Cheng-Ying Lin; 10. The Role of Women's Self-Help Networks in Anti-Caste Discrimination Movements in Nepal; Kanako Nakagawa; Notes on Contributors; Index
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (216 pages), (11 illustrations)
• Subjects: Popular Culture; Gender Studies; Media Studies; Anthropology/General; Black & Asian studies; Gender studies: women; History of ideas
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137525239; 1137525231
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.