Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies - Paperback

by Jieyu Liu (Editor), Junko Yamashita (Editor)

The Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies presents up-to-date theoretical and conceptual developments in key areas of the field, taking a multi-disciplinary and comparative approach.

Featuring contributions by leading scholars of Gender Studies to provide a cutting-edge overview of the field, this handbook includes examples from China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong and covers the following themes:

• theorising gender relations;
• women's and feminist movements;
• work, care and migration;
• family and intergenerational relationships;
• cultural representation;
• masculinity; and
• state, militarism and gender.

This handbook is essential reading for scholars and students of Gender and Women's Studies, as well as East Asian societies, social policy and culture.

Author Biography

Jieyu Liu is Reader in Sociology of China at SOAS University of London, UK. She is the author of Gender and Work in Urban China: Women Workers of the Unlucky Generation (2007) and Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies: Beauties at Work (2016).

Junko Yamashita is Senior Lecturer at the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol, UK. Her research focuses on social and policy dimensions of family, work and inequalities, particularly in relation to care and gender.