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Gender and welfare states in East Asia : Confucianism or gender equality?

Title: Gender and welfare states in East Asia : Confucianism or gender equality? / edited by Sirin Sung, Queen's University Belfast, UK and Gillian Pascall, University of Nottingham, UK.
Publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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xiv, 198 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"Is a Confucian cultural climate hostile to gender equality in families and public decision-making? What is the impact of gender equality legislation in East Asia? Approaches to these welfare regimes have ignored gender, while gendered accounts of welfare have neglected East Asia. Comparisons with Western welfare states show strong economies with life expectancy in Japan and South Korea above those of Western social democracies but in contrast there are extremely large gender gaps in employment, earning, unpaid work and parliamentary representation and conjoined with this low fertility rates and and minimal public social spending on childcare and early education. In this volume, 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. Overall, the collections asks: Has East Asia's rapid economic transformation been accompanied by social and cultural transformation? "--

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction: Gender and Welfare States in East Asia / Sirin Sung and Gillian Pascall -- 2. Work-family Balance Issues and Policies in Korea: Towards an Egalitarian Regime? / Sirin Sung -- 3. Rhetoric or Reality? Peripheral Status of Women's Bureaux in the Korean Gender Regime / Sook-Yeon Won -- 4. Continuity and Change: Comparing Work and Care Reconciliation of Two Generations of Women in Taiwan / Jessie Shu-Yun Wu -- 5. Gender, Social Policy and Older Women with Disabilities in Rural China / Xiaoyuan Shang, Karen R. Fisher and Ping Guo -- 6. Confucian Welfare: A Barrier to the Gender Mainstreaming of Domestic Violence Policy in Hong Kong / Lai Ching Leung -- 7. Emerging Culture Wars: Backlash Against 'Gender Freedom' (Jenda Furi in Japanese) / Kimio Ito -- 8. Prime Ministers' Discourse in Japan's Reforms since the 1980s: Traditionalization of Modernity rather than Confucianism / Emiko Ochiai and Ken'ichi Johshita -- 9. Conclusion: Confucianism or Gender Equality? / Gillian Pascall and Sirin Sung.

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JFD 15-5147

ISBN

9780230279087 (hardback)
0230279082 (hardback)
9781137314796 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013044653
60001884622

OCLC

852224767

Title

Gender and welfare states in East Asia : Confucianism or gender equality? / edited by Sirin Sung, Queen's University Belfast, UK and Gillian Pascall, University of Nottingham, UK.

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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text

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unmediated

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volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Sung, Sirin, 1974-

Pascall, Gillian.

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60001884622

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JFD 15-5147

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