Gender and Change in Hong Kong: Globalization, Postcolonialism, and Chinese Patriarchy

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Eliza Wing-Yee Lee
UBC Press, 1 nov. 2011 - 224 pagini

The 1980s and 1990s represent a critical historical juncture for Hong Kong, as it underwent important social, political, and economic transformations. This period of transition, during which the state worked to redefine itself, significantly altered the role and status of Hong Kong women. Colonial modernity, which arose through the integration of the colonial state, the capitalist economy, and the Hong Kong Chinese society, proved favourable for some women but also had adverse consequences for others. It constructed women of different class interests and shaped the gendered citizenship of its colonial subjects.

Gender and Change in Hong Kong analyzes women's changing identities and agencies amidst the complex interaction of three important forces, namely, globalization, postcolonialism, and Chinese patriarchy. The chapters examine the issues from a number of perspectives to consider legal changes, political participation, the situation of working-class and professional women, sexuality, religion, and international migration.

This incisive volume offers sophisticated theoretical discussions and original empirical findings, and will appeal to a wide range of scholars and students in gender and women's studies, postcolonialism, globalization, and Asian studies.

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Gender and Change in Hong Kong
3
The Unique Challenge of Postcolonial Hong Kong
23
3 Womens Activism during Hong Kongs Political Transition
49
The Identity of Entrepreneurial Women Lawyers in Hong Kong
78
5 Withering Away of the Hong Kong Dream? Women Workers under Industrial Restructuring
97
Questions of Citizenship and Identity in Postcolonial Hong Kong
133
Postcolonialism and Hong Kong Christian Women
151
Astronaut Women in Australia
177
9 Prospects for the Development of a Critical Feminist Discourse
200
Notes on Contributors
208
Index
210
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Eliza W.Y. Lee is an associate professor in the Department of Government and Public Administration at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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