Publisher's Synopsis
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.
