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Women, work and care in the Asia-Pacific
- Title
- Women, work and care in the Asia-Pacific / edited by Marian Baird, Michele Ford and Elizabeth Hill.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 1 Edition.
- Published
- London : New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2017.
- Description
- xviii, 265 pages ; 24 cm.
- Other contributors
- Baird, Marian, editor. Ford, Michele, editor. Hill, Elizabeth, 1967- editor.
- Uniform series
- ASAA women in Asia series ; 50.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index. KOKOMO: IU Kokomo faculty author, Ligaya McGovern, Emeritus (Sociology)
- Contents
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- Work/care regimes in the asia-pacific : a feminist framework
- Familial/informal care regimes
- China : the reconfiguring of women, work and care
- Malaysia : balancing paid and unpaid work
- Singapore : contradictions in the work/care regime
- Indonesia : middle-class complicity and state failure to provide care
- The Philippines : pressures for change in the work/care regime
- Cambodia : managing work and care in a post-conflict context
- Bangladesh : class, precarity and the politics of care
- India : economic inequality and social reproduction
- Sri Lanka : working realities and gendered fictions
- Familial/formal care regimes
- Australia : the care challenge
- New Zealand : caring for women or women caring?
- Predominantly familial care regimes
- Japan : from social reproduction to gender equality
- South Korea : work, care and the wollstonecraft dilemma
- Timor-Leste : mixed messages on work and care
- Papua New Guinea : work and care in a subsistence economy.
- Subject headings
- Women--East Asia--Social conditions. Women--Pacific Area--Social conditions. Older people--Home care--East Asia. Older people--Home care--Pacific Area. Caregivers--East Asia. Caregivers--Pacific Area. Women employees--East Asia. Women employees--Pacific Area.
- ISBN
- 9781138119048 (hardback) 1138119040 (hardback) 9781315652467 (ebook)