The committee interpreted its charge to include three goals: (1) to update earlier analyses with newer information, (2) to provide a more thorough understanding of the scope of potential gender differences in S&E faculty, and (3) to recommend methods for further informing or clarifying assumptions about gender and academic careers. Establishing causes for any observed […]
Месяц: Октябрь 2015
Intensive Mothering and the Impact of Social Class
Those who write about the concerns parents have about the physical wellbeing of their children often also talk about the concerns parents have about their childrens psychological well-being, daily activities, and future development. The recent shift toward more involvement in childrens lives has been well described by two contemporary scholars, Sharon fiays in The Cultural […]
Vera Mackie and Miyume Tanji
Defining militarised sexualities East Asia is now one of the most militarised regions of the planet, hosting the huge standing armies of the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and the smaller armies of Taiwan, Vietnam and Mongolia. There are also US troops stationed in Japan […]
Challenges in attaining legal and social citizenship
In the three East Asian states of South Korea, Japan and Taiwan, the residential status of a nonnational spouse is initially temporary, and access to legal citizenship is contingent upon the marriage being maintained during a set waiting period: two years of residence in South Korea and four years’ residency in Taiwan except for those […]
Christianity, ‘tradition’, identity and gender
There is no doubt that the cultural discourse and practice of gender and sexuality in Owambo were shifting through the impact of Christianity. Earlier, the initiation was central to the definition of female identity. It legitimatised women’s adulthood, sexuality and fertility. A long process of preparation for womanhood which had begun during early girlhood, culminated […]
Meanings of paid work and its complex consequences
Migrant women’s participation in paid work generally provides financial and emotional fulfilment. As Burgess (2004: 235—36) argues, working outside the home (paid or unpaid) is a process of regaining social capital that was compromised in the process of migration, broadening women’s social networks and their lives in general. Paid work offers migrant women a contact […]
Crafting marital relationships and establishing a place in the household
While marriage migration presents a set of similar challenges to all migrant women, details vary in different localities, and the ways in which women make sense of them also differ depending on each individual’s personal and cultural background. Some foresee challenges and subtly negotiate with their fiances, as in the case of a well-educated Filipina […]
Findings from Team B
This team consisted of three male members. They were unable to find a group in the course and the tutor arranged for them to be in the same group together. Using the web-based instant messaging client, the tutor gave students the nicknames — student 1, 2, and 3 respectively. Due to the anonymity of the […]
Reasons for marriage migration: The nexus of gender and economy
Researchers have found a range of often complex reasons for marrying a man abroad. It can be quite unplanned, as in the case of Filipino bar workers in Japan who find themselves in an environment that legitimates courtship with their customers (Faier 2009: 78). It can be a strategy for economic betterment, as with Korean-Chinese […]
Charting marriage migration to East Asia
Marriages between a national and a foreign spouse started to show a significant increase in the 1980s in Japan (Kosei rodo sho 2009a), and in the 1990s in South Korea and Taiwan with notable numbers of co-ethnic marriages (Belanger et al. 2010: 1110—13). Jones and Shen (2008: 13) estimate that in 2005, international marriages accounted […]