Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies

<p>The <i>Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies</i> presents up-to-date theoretical and conceptual developments in key areas of the field taking a multi-disciplinary and comparative approach.</p><p>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:</p><ul> <ul> <li>theorising gender relations;</li> <li>women’s and feminist movements;</li> <li>work care and migration;</li> <li>family and intergenerational relationships;</li> <li>cultural representation;</li> <li>masculinity; and</li> <li>state militarism and gender. </li> </ul> </ul><p>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.</p>