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Gender and Welfare States in East Asia

Confucianism or Gender Equality?

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Editors:
  1. Sirin Sung

    1. Queen’s University Belfast, UK

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  2. Gillian Pascall

    1. University of Nottingham, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: Gender and Welfare States in East Asia

    • Sirin Sung, Gillian Pascall
    Pages 1-28

  3. Work-Family Balance Issues and Policies in Korea: Towards an Egalitarian Regime?

    • Sirin Sung
    Pages 29-48

  4. Rhetoric or Reality? Peripheral Status of Women’s Bureaux in the Korean Gender Regime

    • Sook-Yeon Won
    Pages 49-65

  5. Continuity and Change: Comparing Work and Care Reconciliation of Two Generations of Women in Taiwan

    • Jessie Shu-Yun Wu
    Pages 66-89

  6. Gender, Social Policy and Older Women with Disabilities in Rural China

    • Xiaoyuan Shang, Karen R. Fisher, Ping Guo
    Pages 90-113

  7. Confucian Welfare: A Barrier to the Gender Mainstreaming of Domestic Violence Policy in Hong Kong

    • Lai Ching Leung
    Pages 114-136

  8. Emerging Culture Wars: Backlash against ‘Gender Freedom’ (Jenda Furi in Japanese)

    • Kimio Ito
    Pages 137-151

  9. Prime Ministers’ Discourse in Japan’s Reforms since the 1980s: Traditionalization of Modernity rather than Confucianism

    • Emiko Ochiai, Ken’ichi Johshita
    Pages 152-180

  10. Conclusion: Confucianism or Gender Equality?

    • Gillian Pascall, Sirin Sung
    Pages 181-192

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 193-198
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Queen’s University Belfast, UK

    Sirin Sung

  • University of Nottingham, UK

    Gillian Pascall

About the editors

Sook-Yeon Won, Ewha University in Seoul, Korea Shu-yun Wu (Jessie), National Chi Nan University, Taiwan Xiaoyuan Shang, University of New South Wales, Australia Karen Fisher, University of New South Wales, Australia Guo Ping, China Research Center On Ageing (CRCA), China Leung Lai Ching, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Kimio ITO, Kyoto University, Japan Emiko Ochiai, Kyoto University, Japan Kenichi Johshita, Kyoto University, Japan

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