Gender and Change in Hong Kong
Title | Gender and Change in Hong Kong PDF eBook |
Author | Eliza Wing-Yee Lee |
Publisher | UBC Press |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2011-11-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0774841907 |
Gender and Change in Hong Kong analyzes women's changing identities and agencies amidst the complex interaction of three important forces, namely, globalization, postcolonialism, and Chinese patriarchy. The chapters examine the issues from a number of perspectives to consider legal changes, political participation, the situation of working-class and professional women, sexuality, religion, and international migration.
Engendering Hong Kong Society
Title | Engendering Hong Kong Society PDF eBook |
Author | Fanny M. Cheung |
Publisher | Chinese University Press |
Pages | 412 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789622017368 |
This book provides a scholarly overview of women's status in Hong Kong from a gender perspective. The contributors are associated with the Gender Research Programme at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The chapters offer substantive analyses on the indicators of women's status, including education, work, division of domestic labour, gender roles, women's movement, and public policies affecting women. The historical-cultural context of women's status and the cross-cultural relevance of women's studies are also examined. This book embraces both longitudinal as well as cross-sectional perspectives, and includes both quantitative and qualitative materials. It is not only a scholarly document on Chinese women in Hong Kong, but also a statement marking their changing status. Readers interested in women's issues, gender studies, and Chinese studies will find this book a useful reference.
Mainstreaming Gender in Hong Kong Society
Title | Mainstreaming Gender in Hong Kong Society PDF eBook |
Author | Fanny M. Cheung |
Publisher | Chinese University Press |
Pages | 488 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789629963583 |
This volume demonstrates the importance of gender mainstreaming in examining social issues and making decisions that affect women and men. In so doing, the essays of the book enrich our understanding of the social structures and trends within contemporary Hong Kong society and at the same time restate the need for gender-sensitive perspectives in policy-making.
Hong Kong Rural Women Under Chinese Rule
Title | Hong Kong Rural Women Under Chinese Rule PDF eBook |
Author | Isabella Ng |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2020-12-18 |
Genre | Hong Kong (China) |
ISBN | 9780367728656 |
This book explores gender dynamics in the indigenous villages (also known as walled villages) in post-handover Hong Kong. It looks at how Hong Kong's reunification with China has impacted the walled villagers, in particular the women, and how the walled villages' current gender dynamics in return reflects the changes that have happened in Hong Kong after the reunification with China. It traces the historical development of the walled villages, outlines the nature of walled-village society, and explores the changes currently at work including the erosion of the rural/urban divide, the increasing participation of indigenous women in Hong Kong society more widely and the breakdown of traditional social norms, especially patriarchy.
Gender and the South China Miracle
Title | Gender and the South China Miracle PDF eBook |
Author | Ching Kwan Lee |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2023-04-28 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 052092004X |
Both Yuk-ling, a busy Hong Kong mother of two, and Chi-ying, a young single woman from a remote village in northern China, work in electronics factories owned by the same foreign corporation, manufacturing identical electronic components. After a decade of job growth and increasing foreign investment in Hong Kong and South China, both women are also participating in the spectacular economic transformation that has come to be called the South China miracle. Yet, as Ching Kwan Lee demonstrates in her unique and fascinating study of women workers on either side of the Chinese-Hong Kong border, the working lives and factory cultures of these women are vastly different. In this rich comparative ethnography, Lee describes how two radically different factory cultures have emerged from a period of profound economic change. In Hong Kong, "matron workers" remain in factories for decades. In Guangdong, a seemingly endless number of young "maiden workers" travel to the south from northern provinces, following the promise of higher wages. Whereas the women in Hong Kong participate in a management system characterized by "familial hegemony," the young women in Guangdong find an internal system of power based on regional politics and kin connections, or "localistic despotism." Having worked side-by-side with these women on the floors of both factories, Lee concludes that it is primarily the differences in the gender politics of the two labor markets that determine the culture of each factory. Posing an ambitious challenge to sociological theories that reduce labor politics to pure economics or state power structures, Lee argues that gender plays a crucial role in the cultures and management strategies of factories that rely heavily on women workers. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1999. Both Yuk-ling, a busy Hong Kong mother of two, and Chi-ying, a young single woman from a remote village in northern China, work in electronics factories owned by the same foreign corporation, manufacturing identical electronic components. After a decade o
Women Doing Intimacy
Title | Women Doing Intimacy PDF eBook |
Author | Stevi Jackson |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2020-06-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1137289910 |
This book offers a comparative study of the lives of young adult women and their mothers in Hong Kong and Britain. Set against the backdrop of debates regarding the consequences of late modern social change for family and intimate life, the authors consider the challenges of exploring these issues across differing cultures. The book focuses on a range of topics including: mother-daughter relationships; romantic, sexual and marital relationship trajectories; and the imagined futures of daughters. Throughout, it is argued that differences between Hong Kong and Britain are not attributable merely to local culture and tradition, but are the consequence of wider social, economic and political conditions through which cultural continuity and change are mediated. Women Doing Intimacy will be of interest to students and scholars of family life and gender studies.
Staging Hong Kong
Title | Staging Hong Kong PDF eBook |
Author | Rozanna Lilley |
Publisher | RoutledgeCurzon |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Experimental theater |
ISBN | 9780700707034 |
The book explores the political forces shaping discourses about identity in Hong Kong and the ways in which identity is constituted within representation as part of an ongoing effort to dramatize an increasingly uncertain present.