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Gender and change in Hong Kong : globalization, postcolonialism, and Chinese patriarchy / edited by Eliza W.Y. Lee.
- Title
- Gender and change in Hong Kong : globalization, postcolonialism, and Chinese patriarchy / edited by Eliza W.Y. Lee.
- Publication
- Vancouver, B.C. : UBC Press, c2003.
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- Additional Authors
- Lee, Eliza W. Y., 1962-
- Description
- viii, 216 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Sheds light on Hong Kong's transition from a colonial State to a capitalist economy, and into Chinese and global civil society. Considers the engendering of the legal system, women's activism, their roles as entrepreneurs, and the prospect for the development of a critical feminist discourse.
- Series Statement
- Contemporary Chinese studies
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Contemporary Chinese studies.
- Subject
- Women > China > Hong Kong > Social conditions
- Women > China > Hong Kong > Economic conditions
- Women in development > China > Hong Kong
- Postcolonialism > China > Hong Kong
- Patriarchy > China > Hong Kong
- Patriarcat > Chine > HongKong
- Postcolonialisme > Chine > HongKong
- Femmes > Chine > HongKong > Conditions economiques
- Femmes > Chine > HongKong > Conditions sociales
- Genre/Form
- Electronic books.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : Gender and change in Hong Kong / Eliza W.Y. Lee -- Engendering a legal system : the unique challenge of postcolonial Hong Kong / Carole J. Petersen -- Women's activism during Hong Kong's political transition / Lisa Fischler -- Individualism and patriarchy : the identity of entrepreneurial women lawyers in Hong King / Eliza W.Y. Lee -- Withering away of the Hong Kong dream? Women workers under industrial restructuring / Stephen Wing-Kai Chiu and Ching-Kwan Lee -- Discourse on Baau Yih Naai (keeping concubines) : questions of citizenship and identity in postcolonial Hong Kong / Ka-Ming Wu -- Negotiating gender identity : postcolonialism and Hong Kong Christian women / Wai-Ching Wong -- Empowering mobility : "astronaut" women in Australia / Siumi Maria Tam -- Prospects for the development of a critical feminist discourse / Eliza W.Y. Lee.
- ISBN
- 0774809949 (bound)
- 0774809957 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 52375607
- SCSB-10593264
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library