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Book SynopsisBeyond Tradition and Modernity is a collection of original essays which considers the complexities behind the dramatic changes generated in China during the last decades of the nineteenth and the first decades of the twentieth century. As men and women literally-or metaphorically- crossed into new geographical worlds, they came to express their understanding of the expanding universe in a variety of ways which cannot be neatly labeled either traditional or modern. The contributors to this volume demonstrate how the creativity of these writers marked a new moment in historical and literary practices transcending this usual binary and simple teleology. Their essays expose how the ethnographic, literary, and educational projects of these men and women gave voice to new ideals and ideas that reflect the changing boundaries of gender at this time.

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Book SynopsisIn Pride, Manners, and Morals: Bernard Mandeville’s Anatomy of Honour Andrea Branchi offers a reading of the Anglo-Dutch physician and thinker’s philosophical project from the hitherto neglected perspective of his lifelong interest in the theme of honour. Through an examination of Mandeville’s anatomy of early eighteenth-century beliefs, practices and manners in terms of motivating passions, the book traces the development of his thought on human nature and the origin of sociability. By making honour and its roots in the desire for recognition the central thread of Mandeville’s theory of society, Andrea Branchi offers a unified reading of his work and highlights his relevance as a thinker far beyond the moral problem of commercial societies, opening up new perspectives in Mandeville’s studies.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction  1 Chastity and Courage  2 Bernard Mandeville’s Anatomy of Honour Prologue: Rotterdam, Leyden and London  1 Mandeville’s Continental Background 1 Mandeville’s Female Voices  1 The Century of Sex  2 The Virgin Unmask’d  3 Female Education. “What Girls Should Do with Latin?” 2 The Oxford Gentleman and Philopirio  1 Living Dead and Public Benefactors  2 The Duel of Honour  3 Medicine and Philosophy: The Hypp’d Nation 3 The Political Offspring of Pride  1 Powerful Persuasions  2 Men of Fashion, Bullies in Morality  3 Natural and Artificial Courage 3 Politeness and Virtue  1 Mandeville’s Rise to Fame  2 Hypocrisy and Self-deception  3 The Ticklish Foundation of Female Virtue 4 Cleomenes and Horatio  1 Portrait of a Complete Gentleman  2 Self-liking and the Origin of Politeness  3 A Conjectural History of Sociability 6 Modern Honour and the Cult of the Self  1 Martial Virtue  2 The History of Pride  3 Mandeville’s Challenge Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe role and significance of patriarchy in East Asia varies greatly according to the interplay between deeply entrenched cultural norms, economic change, and government policy. The aim of this book, therefore, is to offer an historical perspective on these issues combined with an analysis of the transitions and outcomes that have occurred in the status of women over the course of modernization and industrialization in five East Asian societies – Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan, and China. The narrative is interwoven with a discussion of contemporary issues such as the persistence of tradition and gender discrimination, how gender roles undermine the development of healthier marriage and family relationships (and better relations among the generations), the lack of full equality for women in employment, falling birth rates, and rising divorce rates. Patriarchy in East Asia is the first study of its kind undertaken by a sociologist who is fluent in all of the local languages, thereby providing a rare level of access in terms of research of primary sources.Table of ContentsPreface ... xi List of Figures ... xiii List of Tables ... xv Introduction: Toward a Comparative Sociology of Gender ... 1 1. A Sociology of Gender ... 1 2. The Meaning of Comparison ... 1 3. The Meaning of Making East Asia the Subject ... 2 PART ONE 1. What is Patriarchy? ... 7 1. Bringing Order to the Discussion of Patriarchy ... 7 2. The Use of Patriarchy in Cultural Anthropology and Sociology ... 8 3. How the Concept of Patriarchy is used by Feminists in the West ... 14 4. Building a Broadly Applicable Concept of Patriarchy ... 18 2. The Emergence of the Housewife and Transformations in Her Position ... 27 1. Married Women Become Housewives and a Source of Labor ... 27 2. Charting the Course of the Emergence of the Housewife ... 30 3. Socialist Models ... 46 PART TWO 3. The Japanese Housewife and Patriarchy ... 53 1. Emergence from Primitive Labor Relations ... 55 2. Background for Emergence of Japan’s Modern Patriarchy—Confucianism and the Ideal of the Good Wife and Wise Mother ... 60 3. The Advent of the Modern Housewife ... 85 4. The Modern Housewife in Wartime Conditions—Motherhood Emphasized Once Again... 96 4. Contemporary Patriarchy and the Housewife in Japan ... 99 1. Postwar Economic Growth and New Forms of Industrialization ... 99 2. Formation of New Patriarchal Norms ... 105 3. How the Agent has Responded ... 108 4. The Contemporary Housewife in Japan ... 113 5. Problems in Contemporary Japanese Patriarchy ... 133 PART THREE 5. South Korean Patriarchy ... 137 1. Industrialization in South Korea ... 138 2. The Background of South Korean Patriarchy ... 141 3. Forms of South Korean Women’s Employment ... 149 4. South Korean Patriarchy ... 160 6. Taiwanese Patriarchy ... 171 1. Industrialization in Taiwan ... 171 2. The Background of Taiwanese Patriarchy ... 177 3. Forms of Women’s Employment in Taiwan ... 182 4. The Taiwanese Model of Patriarchy ... 195 7. Patriarchy in North Korea ... 203 1. Socialist Construction ... 205 2. Indigenization ... 210 8. Patriarchy in China ... 223 1. Building Socialism ... 223 2. Moving away from Socialism or Indigenization, Compromising with Tradition ... 233 3. Gender Issues in China—Now and in the Future ... 237 9. Recent Social and Political Changes in East Asia ... 247 1. Declining Birth Rates and Destabilization of Marriage ... 248 2. Patterns of Women’s Labor ... 253 3. Employment Patterns among Older Citizens ... 258 4. North Korea Pushes ahead with its Own Line ... 267 5. Life in China under a Socialist Market Economy ... 274 10. Conclusions ... 281 1. Comparative Sociology of Gender in East Asia ... 282 2. Looking for Approaches to Resolving Women’s Issues in Contemporary Japan ... 285 Afterword: A Man Concerned About Gender Equality? ... 299 Afterword to the English edition ... 302 Bibliography ... 305 Index ... 325

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Book SynopsisThis book’s strongest appeal lies in its theoretical orientation, seeking to define frameworks that are most relevant to the Asian reality. These frameworks include compressed and semi-compressed modernity, familialism, familialization policy, unsustainable society, second demographic dividend, care diamond, and transnational public sphere. Such concepts are seen as essential in any discussion concerning the intimate and public spheres of contemporary Asia.Table of ContentsPreface ... ix List of Figures ... xi List of Tables ... xv Introduction: Reconstruction of Intimate and Public Spheres in Asian Modernity ... 1 OCHIAI Emiko 1 Individualization without Individualism: Compressed Modernity and Obfuscated Family Crisis in East Asia ... 37 CHANG Kyung-Sup 2 Unsustainable Societies: Low Fertility and Familialism in East Asia’s Compressed and Semi-compressed Modernities ... 63 OCHIAI Emiko 3 Demographic Dividend and the Future of Asia ... 91 Patcharawalai WONGBOONSIN and Kua WONGBOONSIN 4 Shrinking of the Japanese Uniqueness: A Quantitative Analysis of Life Course Changes ... 116 IWAI Hachiro 5 Factors in the Wage Diffferential between Standard and Nonstandard Employment: A comparison of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan ... 144 TAROHMARU Hiroshi 6 Care Diamonds and Welfare Regimes in East and Southeast Asian Societies ... 164 OCHIAI Emiko 7 Incorporating Foreign Domestic Workers as Providers of Family Care: Case Studies of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore ... 190 ASATO Wako 8 Social Investment Policy in South Korea ... 234 ITO Peng 9 A Comparative Perspective on Japanese Family Law ... 254 MIZUNO Noriko 10 The Development of Civil Society in East Asia: Focusing on the Environment, Human Rights and Migrant Labor ... 266 IGARASHI Seiichi Index ... 303

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Book SynopsisFollowing the Asian economic crisis of the 1990s, this is the first book to examine the structure and transformation of the labor markets and social stratification of contemporary East Asia, namely Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China, focusing in particular on gender inequality. It deals with social mobility and gender differences in unemployment, temporary employment and self-employment. Additionally, gender segregation, social identity and suicide rates are also addressed. Taken together, the issues raised in this volume reinforce the advantage of a comparative approach to East Asian Studies. The findings, supported by strong statistical analysis, clearly call into question a longstanding view that East Asian gender regimes and class structure are homogeneous. Indeed, this is demonstrably not the case, as Labor Markets, Gender and Social Stratification in East Asia shows, revealing as it does considerable diversities in labor markets, gender regimes, and social mobility within East Asian societies due to historical and institutional differences. Contributors include: Chang Chin-Fen, Kim Young-Mi, Oda Akiko, Phang Hanam, Sakaguchi Yusuke, Shibata Haruka, Takamatsu Rie, Takenoshita Hirohisa, Tarohmaru Hiroshi, Xie Guihua, and Yamato Reiko.Table of ContentsList of Contributors List of Figures List of Tables 1. Labor Markets, Gender, and Social Stratification in East Asia: Research Background and Framework TAROHMARU Hiroshi 2. Gender Difference in Unemployment Risk in the Face of Globalization: Effects of Institutional Factors in the Case of Japan and Taiwan SAKAGUCHI Yusuke 3. Economic Crisis, Labor Market Restructuring and Job Mobility in Korea: 1998-2008 PHANG Hanam 4. Impact of a changing employment system on women’s employment at the times of marriage and childbirth in Japan YAMATO Reiko 5. Can Active Labor Market Policies Enhance the Suicide-Preventive Effect of Intimacy? A Dynamic Panel Analysis of 27 OECD Countries Including Japan and Korea, 1980 to 2007 Haruka SHIBATA 6. An Interregional Comparison of Occupational Gender Segregation in Japan ODA Akiko, TAROHMARU Hiroshi, and YAMATO Reiko 7. Who is Successful in Stabilizing Self-Employment?: Family, Gender and Labor Market Structures TAKENOSHITA Hirohisa 8. Where the Materialism still Matters: Status Identity in East Asia CHANG Chin-fen, XIE Guihua, TAKAMATSU Rie, and KIM Young-Mi Index

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Book SynopsisIn Politics of Honor, Başak Tuğ examines moral and gender order through the glance of legal litigations and petitions in mid-eighteenth century Anatolia. By juxtaposing the Anatolian petitionary registers, subjects’ petitions, and Ankara and Bursa court records, she analyzes the institutional framework of legal scrutiny of sexual order. Through a revisionist interpretation, Tuğ demonstrates that a more bureaucratized system of petitioning, a farther hierarchically organized judicial review mechanism, and a more centrally organized penal system of the mid-eighteenth century reinforced the existing mechanisms of social surveillance by the community and the co-existing “discretionary authority” of the Ottoman state over sexual crimes to overcome imperial anxieties about provincial “disorder”.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Maps and Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1 Social and Legal Order in the Eighteenth Century Justice, Imperial Public Order, and Ottoman Politico-Judicial Authority Oligarchic Rule and Local Notables in the Eighteenth Century The Kanun as Legal Practice in the Eighteenth Century Chapter 2 Petitioning and Intervention: A Question of Power The Imperial Council and Petitions as a Reflection of Imperial Law in Legal Practice Petitionary (Ahkam) Registers and Socio-Legal Surveillance Reporting Sexual Violence Actors, Strategies, and Rhetoric Petitions as a Mirror of Local Cleavages Chapter 3 Banditry, Sexual Violence and Honor Sexual Violence as a Sign of “Habitualness” to Violence Sexual Violence, Honor and the Imperial State Chapter 4 The Repertoire of Sexual Crimes in the Courts Why fi‛l-i şeni‛ (Indecent Act), but not zina Other Expressions Used in the Registers to Describe Sexual Assaults Chapter 5 The Penal Order of Eighteenth-Century Anatolia The Enigma of Crime and Punishment in the Court Records Social and Institutional Limits to the Authority of Local Judges Under Whose Discretion was Sexual and Moral Order? In Lieu of Conclusion: Silence and Outcry in the Records Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGlobalized Religion and Sexual Identity reflects on the ways religion, gender and sexual identity are framed and regulated in multiple spheres across the globe. Controversies in the public arena regarding religion and sexual identity often construct these categories as inherently oppositional or already in conflict. As state policies regarding sexuality and sexual diversity develop, promoting inclusivity and non-discrimination, it is imperative to develop a more nuanced discussion regarding the relationship of religion/ideology to sexual diversity and sexuality. The goal of this volume is to explore religion and sexual identity from a range of countries across the globe, focusing on the theme of religious/ideological voices in state policies, such as same-sex marriage, identification, and education.Trade Review"As socio-cultural constructions, religion and sexuality — as well as their intersections — should be studied in their specific contextual configurations. That precise challenge is taken up in this volume. Fourteen chapters describe such intersections in different contexts. [...] As this overview suggests, this book has a lot to offer with respect to current debates on religion and sexual diversity." R.R. Ganzevoort, VU University, in Journal of Empirical Theology 28 (2015), 144-145.

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Book SynopsisReceptions of Antiquity, Constructions of Gender in European Art, 1300-1600 presents scholarship in classical reception at its nexus with art history and gender studies. It considers the ways that artists, patrons, collectors, and viewers in late medieval and early modern Europe used ancient Greek and Roman art, texts, myths, and history to interact with and shape notions of gender. The essays examine Giotto's Arena Chapel frescoes, Michelangelo's Medici Chapel personifications, Giulio Romano's decoration of the Palazzo del Te, and other famous and lesser-known sculptures, paintings, engravings, book illustrations, and domestic objects as well as displays of ancient art. Visual responses to antiquity in this era, the volume demonstrates, bore a complex and significant relationship to the construction of, and challenges to, contemporary gender norms.Trade Review"Overall, this collection of essays explores new, gendered ground in the firmly rooted classical tradition in Renaissance art, and scholars from art history, literature, and gender studies will all find this book to be informative. The volume sheds much light on an important subject that has not received the attention it deserves from scholars; (...) I have no doubt that future explorations of gendered receptions of antiquity in Renaissance visual culture will draw on the many insights of these essays." Allison Fisher, Renaissance Quarterly, Volume 70, Number 1 "As is often found with such books, there is variability among the essays, but the overall quality is excellent.There are numerous figures included within the essays demonstrating the care with which each scholar considered the evidence for their claims.(...) The variety of approaches to the topic of gender in the reception of classical art highlights how fruitful this topic is. The overall effect is the demolition of static, prescriptive notions of gender over the period in question and to demonstrate the multivalence of many classical motifs." Natasha Amendola, The Medieval Review 16.12.12 "Ultimately, the collection of essays is perhaps the ideal format for poststructuralist approaches to art history. A clear principle—the relative “horizon of expectations”—underpins the otherwise sui generis data of a multitude of case studies, each with her own nuanced stories that might be overshadowed by a broader narrative, and art history is richer as a result." Rebecca Shields, Rutgers University, Woman's Art Journal 38, 1, summer 2017. "A strength of the essays is the way in which scholars note that the interpretation of the classical figures was not static; repeatedly the reader is shown that interpretations change over time and are based on the circumstances of the viewer, differentiated by gender or by social and economic status. This book is a valuable and welcome addition to the study of late medieval and early modern receptions of gender and classical antiquity in visual culture. (...) The editors and most contributors are art historians, but the methodological perspectives and conclusions offered here will be of broad interest to scholars across the humanities." Rita Keane, Drew University, Speculum, 94/4 (October 2019).Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Classical Reception, Gender Studies, and Art History (Marice Rose and Alison C. Poe) 1. Cross-Dressing in the Arena Chapel: Giotto's Virtue Fortitude Re-examined (Mary D. Edwards) 2. The Liminal Feminine: Illuminating Europa in the Ovide Moralise (K. Sarah-Jane Murray with Ashley A. Simone) 3. A Giant Corrupt Body: The Gendering of Renaissance Roma (Genevieve S. Gessert) 4. Luca Signorelli's Veturia Persuading Coriolanus to Spare Rome and Viewers in the Palazzo Petrucci, Siena (Stephanie C. Leone) 5. Queer Fragments: Sodoma, the Belvedere Torso, and Saint Catherine's Head (Timothy B. Smith) 6. The Trouble with Pasiphae: Engendering a Myth at the Gonzaga Court (Maria F. Maurer) 7. Vision, Voluptas, and the Poetics of Water in Lorenzo Lotto's Venus and Cupid (April Oettinger) 8. The Crone, the Witch, and the Library: The Intersection of Classical Fantasy with Christian Vice during the Italian Renaissance (Patricia Simons) 9. Picturing Rape and Revenge in Ovid's Myth of Philomela (Hetty E. Joyce) 10. Figuring Florence: Gendered Bodies in Sixteenth-Century Personifications and Their Antique Models (Claudia Lazzaro) 11. Conjugal Piety: Creusa in Barocci's Aeneas' Flight from Troy (Ian Verstegen) 12. Ancient Idols, Lascivious Statues, and Sixteenth-Century Viewers in Roman Gardens (Katherine M. Bentz) Index

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Book SynopsisThe role and significance of patriarchy in East Asia varies greatly according to the interplay between deeply entrenched cultural norms, economic change, and government policy. The aim of this book, therefore, is to offer an historical perspective on these issues combined with an analysis of the transitions and outcomes that have occurred in the status of women over the course of modernization and industrialization in five East Asian societies – Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan, and China. The narrative is interwoven with a discussion of contemporary issues such as the persistence of tradition and gender discrimination, how gender roles undermine the development of healthier marriage and family relationships (and better relations among the generations), the lack of full equality for women in employment, falling birth rates, and rising divorce rates. Patriarchy in East Asia is the first study of its kind undertaken by a sociologist who is fluent in all of the local languages, thereby providing a rare level of access in terms of research of primary sources.Table of ContentsPreface ... xi List of Figures ... xiii List of Tables ... xv Introduction: Toward a Comparative Sociology of Gender ... 1 1. A Sociology of Gender ... 1 2. The Meaning of Comparison ... 1 3. The Meaning of Making East Asia the Subject ... 2 PART ONE 1. What is Patriarchy? ... 7 1. Bringing Order to the Discussion of Patriarchy ... 7 2. The Use of Patriarchy in Cultural Anthropology and Sociology ... 8 3. How the Concept of Patriarchy is used by Feminists in the West ... 14 4. Building a Broadly Applicable Concept of Patriarchy ... 18 2. The Emergence of the Housewife and Transformations in Her Position ... 27 1. Married Women Become Housewives and a Source of Labor ... 27 2. Charting the Course of the Emergence of the Housewife ... 30 3. Socialist Models ... 46 PART TWO 3. The Japanese Housewife and Patriarchy ... 53 1. Emergence from Primitive Labor Relations ... 55 2. Background for Emergence of Japan’s Modern Patriarchy—Confucianism and the Ideal of the Good Wife and Wise Mother ... 60 3. The Advent of the Modern Housewife ... 85 4. The Modern Housewife in Wartime Conditions—Motherhood Emphasized Once Again... 96 4. Contemporary Patriarchy and the Housewife in Japan ... 99 1. Postwar Economic Growth and New Forms of Industrialization ... 99 2. Formation of New Patriarchal Norms ... 105 3. How the Agent has Responded ... 108 4. The Contemporary Housewife in Japan ... 113 5. Problems in Contemporary Japanese Patriarchy ... 133 PART THREE 5. South Korean Patriarchy ... 137 1. Industrialization in South Korea ... 138 2. The Background of South Korean Patriarchy ... 141 3. Forms of South Korean Women’s Employment ... 149 4. South Korean Patriarchy ... 160 6. Taiwanese Patriarchy ... 171 1. Industrialization in Taiwan ... 171 2. The Background of Taiwanese Patriarchy ... 177 3. Forms of Women’s Employment in Taiwan ... 182 4. The Taiwanese Model of Patriarchy ... 195 7. Patriarchy in North Korea ... 203 1. Socialist Construction ... 205 2. Indigenization ... 210 8. Patriarchy in China ... 223 1. Building Socialism ... 223 2. Moving away from Socialism or Indigenization, Compromising with Tradition ... 233 3. Gender Issues in China—Now and in the Future ... 237 9. Recent Social and Political Changes in East Asia ... 247 1. Declining Birth Rates and Destabilization of Marriage ... 248 2. Patterns of Women’s Labor ... 253 3. Employment Patterns among Older Citizens ... 258 4. North Korea Pushes ahead with its Own Line ... 267 5. Life in China under a Socialist Market Economy ... 274 10. Conclusions ... 281 1. Comparative Sociology of Gender in East Asia ... 282 2. Looking for Approaches to Resolving Women’s Issues in Contemporary Japan ... 285 Afterword: A Man Concerned About Gender Equality? ... 299 Afterword to the English edition ... 302 Bibliography ... 305 Index ... 325

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Book SynopsisYouth Identities and Social Transformations in Modern Indonesia addresses current struggles and opportunities facing Indonesia’s youth across the archipelago. Contributions to this volume delve into youth aspirations and their everyday lives - education; friendship; work; leisure; sexuality; religion - described through the lens of the young people themselves.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Preface: Being Young in Indonesia, Kathryn Robinson Section 1: Studying Indonesia’s Youth: The Big Picture Chapter 1: Generation and Social Change: Indonesian Youth in Comparative Perspective, Ben White Chapter 2: Contemporary Indonesian Youth Transitions: Trends and Inequalities, Pam Nilan, Lyn Parker, Kathryn Robinson and Linda Bennett Section 2: Education—Securing Youth Futures? Chapter 3: Teenage Experiences of School, Work, and Life in a Javanese Village, Ben White and C. Ugik Margiyatin Chapter 4: Educational Aspirations and Inter-generational Relations in Sorowako, Kathryn Robinson Section 3: Friendship, Growing up, and Peer Surveillance Chapter 5: Pouring out One’s Heart: Close Friendships among Minangkabau Young People, Lyn Parker Chapter 6: Pramuka: Scouting Days of Fun, Pujo Semedi Section 4: Performing Youth in Space and Time Chapter 7: Dwindling Space and Expanding Worlds for Youth in Rural and Urban Yogyakarta, Patrick Guinness Chapter 8: Local Modernities: Young Women Socializing Together, Pam Nilan Section 5: Performing Masculinity, Claiming the Street Chapter 9: Streetwise Masculinity and Other Urban Performances of Postwar Ambon: A Photo-Essay, Patricia Spyer Chapter 10: Violent Activism, Islamist Ideology, and the Conquest of Public Space among Youth in Indonesia, Noorhaidi Hasan Section 6: “Moral Panics” and the Health of the Nation Chapter 11: The Ongoing Culture Debate: Female Youth and Pergaulan (Bebas) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Tracy Wright Webster Chapter 12: Young Sasak Mothers—“Tidak Manja Lagi”: Transitioning from Single Daughter to Young Married Mother in Lombok, Eastern Indonesia, Linda Rae Bennett Index

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