Handbook on gender in Asia. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Shirlena Huang, Kanchana N. Ruwanpura.
• Editors: Huang, Shirlena; Ruwanpura, Kanchana N
• Contents: Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction to the Handbook on Gender in Asia -- PART I GENDER IN ASIA: THEORY AND PRACTICE -- 2. Patriarchal bargains and a triple bind: On writing geographies of gender in India -- 3. 'You are (Hong Kong) Chinese! You should understand our culture! 'Reflections of a Chinese male ethnographer on researching Nepali drug users in Hong Kong -- 4. Challenges and opportunities as a white postgraduate woman researching in Asia -- PART II GENDER, AGEING AND HEALTH 5. Old-age well-being in developing Southeast Asia: Gendered perspectives of Myanmar, Vietnam and Thailand -- 6. Gender, ageing, and health in China -- 7. Eldercare, gender relations and migrant labour in Japan: Approaching the interplay of informal and formal care -- 8. Parent care in transnational families: Experiences of Taiwanese-Chinese families in Australia and New Zealand -- 9. Rural Thai women's life transformations through partnering Western men: Gendered exchanges, differential ageing, and rights -- PART III GENDER AND LABOUR 10. Labour informality, patriarchal gender regimes and neoliberalism in Turkey -- 11. Gendering work and labor in the agriculture sector: A focus on South Asia -- 12. Vulnerability and resilience on the streets: Interrogating intersectionality among Southeast Asia's street vendors -- 13. Modestly modern: Mapping the Pakistani Muslim working woman -- 14. Gender and domestic work in India -- PART IV GENDERED MIGRATIONS AND MOBILITIES -- 15. Gendered highly skilled migration in the knowledge sector 16. Beyond the 'age' lens: Older migrants' negotiation of intersectional identities over the lifecourse -- 17. From factory worker to foreign wife: Reading migration and development through a gender perspective -- 18. Gendered lifestyle migration in Asia: Japanese transnational families in Malaysia -- 19. Gender and transnational parenting: Extended moral communities of co-responsibility among (im)migrant Kodavathees -- 20. Emotion, gender and migration in Asia -- PART V GENDER AT THE MARGINS 21. Migrant workers and childcare at the place of destination: An overview of issues in the Mekong region, South East Asia -- 22. Gender of forced migration: Kachin internally displaced people at the China-Myanmar border -- 23. Exploring the continuum: Violence against women and security in Nepal's transition to peace -- 24. Silence and invisibility: The gender dimensions of women's activism in higher education in Asia -- Index
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham, UK Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 305.3095; Sex role -- Asia; Sex -- Asia; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781788112918; 1788112911
• Related ISBNs: 1788112903; 9781788112901
• Notes: Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 21, 2020).
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