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Women doing intimacy : gender, family and modernity in Britain and Hong Kong /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jackson, Stevi
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Ho, Petula Sik Ying
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Series:Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life.
Subjects:
Women > Great Britain > History.
Women > Great Britain > Social conditions.
Women > China > Hong Kong > History.
Women > China > Hong Kong > Social conditions.
Social groups.
Families.
Sociology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • 1 Introduction: The Genesis of a Transnational Collaborative Project
  • 2 Conceptualising and Investigating the Gendered Consequences of Modernity in Britain and Hong Kong
  • Re-Thinking Intimacy and Modernity
  • Modernity or Modernities? the Asian Experience
  • From Theory to Research
  • 3 Interconnected Histories: Locating Women's Lives in Time and Space
  • Global Interconnections and the Founding of Hong Kong
  • Gender, Empire and Social Inequality in Britain and Hong Kong
  • War, Its Aftermath and Post-War Developments
  • Education and Social Mobility
  • Unequal Opportunities
  • Protest and Change: 1960s and 1970s
  • From the 1980s Onwards
  • Twenty-First Century Lives
  • 4 What Makes a Family? Meanings and Practices
  • Conceptualising Family Life
  • Changing Family Forms and Practices
  • The Mothers' Children
  • Meanings and Practices of Families: Within and Between Households
  • Reciprocity, 'Filial Piety' and Obligation
  • Conclusion
  • 5 Mother-Daughter Relationships
  • Childrearing, Discipline and Surveillance
  • Educating Daughters: Project or Investment?
  • Managing Daughters' Sexuality
  • Practices of Intimacy in Mother-Daughter Relationships
  • Difficult Conversations
  • Concluding Comments
  • 6 Love and Sex in Marital and Non-marital Contexts
  • Pathways into Relationships Among the Mothers' Generation
  • Changes in Relationships over Time
  • New Relationships
  • From Mothers to Daughters
  • Pragmatism and Morality
  • Conclusion
  • 7 Imagined Futures in Uncertain Times
  • To Marry or not?
  • Career Versus Motherhood?
  • Tradition and Modernity
  • Visions of the Future: The Bigger Picture
  • 8 Concluding Reflections
  • References
  • Index