Gender and Family in East Asia

by Siumi Maria Tam

Book Overview

The on-going reconfiguration of geo-political and economic forces across the globe has created a new institutional and moral environment for East Asian family life and gender dynamics. Indeed, modernisation in East Asia has brought about increases in women's education levels and participation in the labour force, a delay in marriage age, lower birth rates, and smaller family size. And yet, despite the process of modernization, traditional systems...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041571589X
• ISBN13: 9780415715898
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"