East Asian Mothers in Britain An Intersectional Exploration of Motherhood and Employment /

• Main Author: Lim, Hyun-Joo (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• Subjects: Sociology.; Cultural studies.; Social groups.; Family.; Ethnicity.; Gender Studies.; Cultural Studies.; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.; Ethnicity Studies.

How do Chinese, Japanese and Korean mothers in Britain make sense of their motherhood and employment? What are the intersecting factors that shape these women's identities, experiences and stories? Contributing further to the continuing discourse and development of intersectionality, this book...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The question of identity for East Asian migrant women
• 3. Intersectionality and storytelling in the context of East Asian mothers
• 4. Narratives of home-stay mothers: the ideology of intensive motherhood
• 5. Narratives of employed mothers: the Legacy of the Chinese Work Ethic
• 6. Gender relations at home
• 7. Conclusion.