Gender and Welfare States in East Asia [electronic resource] : Confucianism or Gender Equality? /
Sung, Sirin.author.
Pascall, Gillian.author.
Contributors address questions about gender equality in a Confucian context across a wide and varied social policy landscape, from Korea and Taiwan, where Confucian culture is deeply embedded, through China, with its transformations from Confucianism to communism and back, to the mixed cultural environments of Hong Kong and Japan.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Didecation; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Gender and Welfare States in East Asia; 2 Work-Family Balance Issues and Policies in Korea: Towards an Egalitarian Regime?; 3 Rhetoric or Reality? Peripheral Status of Women's Bureaux in the Korean Gender Regime; 4 Continuity and Change: Comparing Work and Care Reconciliation of Two Generations of Women in Taiwan; 5 Gender, Social Policy and Older Women with Disabilities in Rural China
6 Confucian Welfare: A Barrier to the Gender Mainstreaming of Domestic Violence Policy in Hong Kong7 Emerging Culture Wars: Backlash against 'Gender Freedom' (Jenda Furi in Japanese); 8 Prime Ministers' Discourse in Japan's Reforms since the 1980s: Traditionalization of Modernity rather than; 9 Conclusion: Confucianism or Gender Equality?; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Contributors address questions about gender equality in a Confucian context across a wide and varied social policy landscape, from Korea and Taiwan, where Confucian culture is deeply embedded, through China, with its transformations from Confucianism to communism and back, to the mixed cultural environments of Hong Kong and Japan.
Sociology.
Welfare state.
Social policy.
Political science.
Social service .
Cultural studies.
Gender Studies.
Politics of the Welfare State.
Social Policy.
Political Science.
Social Care.
Cultural Studies.