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Winner of the 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title AwardThis book comprises contributions from a distinguished group of international researchers who examine the historical development of "new women" and "good wife, wise mother," women's roles in socialist and transitional modernity and the transnational migration of both domestic and sex workers as well as wives.

Images of Familial Intimacy in Eastern and Western Art, explores art works depicting children, couples, families and the home through an examination of the value systems of the works' region and time periods from whence they originated.

This volume reveals new dimensions of modernisation, by discussing the current social transformation of six Central and Eastern European countries as well as two East Asian societies seen through family and social change.

This 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.

Patriarchy in East Asia provides a coherent comparative analysis of gender in five East Asian societies. This is the first work of its kind done by a sociologist who is also fluent in all of the local languages.

Winner of the 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award.The famous ryōsai kenbo or 'good wife, wise mother' role of Japanese women was, in fact, not a traditional Confucian view but a modern construct - its first appearance in Japan being the latter half of the nineteenth century. Girls at the time were proud to fulfill their new role of contributing to not just the family but to the formation of the state. Koyama's discovery has transformed how we see modern women's history in Japan and East Asia as a whole.

Weaving Women's Spheres in Vietnam examines the changing status of womanhood in 'traditional', transitional and contemporary Vietnam from anthropological, historical, and sociological perspectives, focusing particularly on women's active agency in negotiating their own roles in family, religion and community.

Labor Markets, Gender and Social Stratification in East Asia addresses the dynamics of inequality and gender in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China following the Asian economic crisis of the 1990s. The findings demonstrate significant diversity of East Asian gender regimes and class structures.