Author : Esther Ngan-ling Chow
Release : 1994-06-07
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 867/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women, the Family, and Policy by : Esther Ngan-ling Chow
Download or read book Women, the Family, and Policy written by Esther Ngan-ling Chow. This book was released on 1994-06-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors highlight how structural circumstances in countries with various degrees of industrialization are associated with specific policies. The analyses of womens experiences reveal the variety of ways in which private patriarchy in families combines with public patriarchy in economies and states to create a system of domination which subordinates women. The authors detail how gender is constructed under specific political, economic, and cultural circumstances, and seek to understand how state policies with differing sensitivities to womens issues have produced mixed outcomes for women and their families in the process of economic development.