Women, work and care in the Asia-Pacific /

Women, work and care in the Asia-Pacific / edited by Marian Baird, Michele Ford and Elizabeth Hill. - London : New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2017. - xviii, 265 pages ; 24 cm. - Women in Asia ; 50 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Women--Social conditions.--East Asia
Women--Social conditions.--Pacific Area
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.

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