Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia

Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia brings together a collection of original essays from top scholars in the United States and Asia to explore the centrality of gender in the process of economic development in East Asia. Contributors demonstrate through ethnography, personal narratives, field observation, and in-depth interviews the essential parts women have played in the national growth, economic restructuring, and industrialization of East Asian countries, including South Korea, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and China.

Esther Ngan-ling Chow is Professor of Sociology at American University in Washington D.C. and has served as an adjunct faculty member in the Center for Asian Studies, and is affiliated with the Women's and Gender Studies programs.

Introduction, Esther Ngan-ling Chow Part I: EnGendering East Asian Development Chapter 1: Globalization, East Asian Development, and Gender: A Historical Overview, Esther Ngan-ling Chow Chapter 2: Studying Gender and Development with Gender Perspectives: From Mainstream Theories to Alternative Frameworks, Esther Ngan-ling Chow and Deanna M. LyterPart II: The Process of Industrialization: Institutional Embeddedness, Control, and ResistanceChapter 3: Women and Work in East Asia, Yin-wah ChuChapter 4: Gendered Organizations, Embodiment, and Employment among Manufacturing Workers in Taiwan, Esther Ngan-ling Chow and Ray-May HsungChapter 5: Power, Media Representation, and Labor Dispute: The Case of Women Workers in South Korea, Hyun Mee KimPart III: The Impact of Economic Restructuring on Employment and FamilyChapter 6: Women's Unemployment, Re-employment and Self-employment in China's Economic Restructuring, Ting GongChapter 7: State Women Workers in Chinese Economic Reform: The Transformation of Management Control and Firm Independence, Ping PingChapter 8: Gender Embeddedness of Family Strategies: Hong Kong Working-class Families Under Economic Restructuring, Vivian Hiu-tung LeungPart IV: Migration, Household, and Gender StrategiesChapter 9: Guests From the Tropics: Labor Practices and Foreign Workers in Taiwan, Anru LeeChapter 10: Fleeing Poverty: Rural Women, Expanding Marriage Markets, and Strategies for Social Mobility in Contemporary China, Christina Gilmartin and Lin TanChapter 11: Women's Work in International Migration, Janet W. SalaffBibliographyAbout the ContributorsIndex