Gender and Change in Hong Kong

Globalization, Postcolonialism, and Chinese Patriarchy

Edited by Eliza Wing-Yee Lee
Categories: Gender & Sexuality Studies, Women’s Studies, Social Sciences, Anthropology, Law & Legal Studies, Regional & Cultural Studies, Asian Studies
Series: Contemporary Chinese Studies
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774809948, 224 pages, August 2003
Paperback : 9780774809955, 224 pages, January 2004
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774841900, 224 pages, November 2011
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774851855, 224 pages, October 2007
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Table of contents

Preface

1. Introduction: Gender and Change in Hong Kong / Eliza W.Y.
Lee

2. Engendering a Legal System: The Unique Challenge of Postcolonial
Hong Kong / Carole J. Petersen

3. Women’s Activism during Hong Kong’s Political
Transition / Lisa Fischler

4. Individualism and Patriarchy: The Identity of Entrepreneurial
Women Lawyers in Hong Kong / Eliza W.Y. Lee

5. Withering Away of the Hong Kong Dream? Women Workers under
Industrial Restructuring / Stephen Wing-Kai Chiu and Ching-Kwan
Lee

6. Discourse on Baau Yih Naai (Keeping Concubines): Questions of
Citizenship and Identity in Postcolonial Hong Kong / Ka-Ming
Wu

7. Negotiating Gender Identity: Postcolonialism and Hong Kong
Christian Women / Wai-Ching Wong

8. Empowering Mobility: "Astronaut" Women in Australia /
Siumi Maria Tam

9. Prospects for the Development of a Critical Feminist Discourse /
Eliza W.Y. Lee

Notes on Contributors

Index

This sophisticated collection of essays provides an innovative analysis
of gender relations at the nexus of globalization, Chinese patriarchy,
and post-colonialism in Hong Kong.

Description

Gender and Change in Hong Kong analyzes women’s changing
identities and agencies amidst the complex interaction of three
important forces, namely, globalization, postcolonialism, and Chinese
patriarchy. The chapters examine the issues from a number of
perspectives to consider legal changes, political participation, the
situation of working-class and professional women, sexuality, religion,
and international migration.

Reviews

This is overall an insightful collection of essays.

- Maria N. Ng

This book is an important contribution to gender and change in Hong Kong, which is, in the words of the editor, “theoretically informed and grounded in concrete historical situations (p. vii). This multi-perspective, well-researched, and clearly written volume will be an important reference for researchers and students of political science, history, and sociology interested in gender issues in Hong Kong.

- Hans Yeung, University of Hong Kong