| 书目名称 | Re-negotiating Gender | | 副标题 | Household Division o | | 编辑 | Lake Lui | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Insightful analysis of gender inequality in families.Rich and colourful real-life stories.Timely reflections of current social trends in Chinese societies | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .In Chinese societies where both “money” and “gender” confer power, can a woman’s economic success relative to her husband’s bring about a more equal division of household labor? Lui’s qualitative study of “status-reversed” Hong Kong families, wherein wives earn more than their husbands, examines how couples re-negotiate household labor in ways that perpetuate male dominance within the family even when the traditional gender expectation that “men rule outside, women rule inside” (.nanzhuwai, nuzhunei.) is challenged. Going beyond the dyadic negotiation of household labor, this important study also explores the role of “third parties,” namely the couples’ children and parents, who actively encourage couples to conform to traditional gender norms, thereby reproducing an unequal division of household labor. Based upon the experiences of families with stay-at-home dads, Lui further identifies a new mechanism of deconstructing gender, by which couples concertedly construct new norms of "work" and "gender" that they maintain through daily interactions to fit their atypical relative earnings. As a result, there are sparks of hope that both men and women can be liberated from a set of trad | | 出版日期 | Book 2013 | | 关键词 | Chinese society; Doing gender; Dual-earner couples; Household division of labor; Househusbands and house | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4848-4 | | isbn_softcover | 978-94-007-9824-3 | | isbn_ebook | 978-94-007-4848-4 | | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. 2013 |
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