Re-negotiating Gender Household Division of Labor when She Earns More than He Does /

• Main Author: Lui, Lake (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Sociology.; Families.; Families > Social aspects.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Gender identity.; Social Sciences.; Family.; Gender Studies.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Literature Review
• Chapter 3: Research Methodology
• Chapter 4: Conceptualizing Housework and Who Does What?
• Chapter 5: The Changing Gender Ideology of Contemporary Hong Kong
• Chapter 6: Housework Battles and Gender Strategies
• Chapter 7: Children, In-laws and "Doing Gender" of Couples
• Chapter 8: Undoing or Redoing Gender
• Chapter 9: Conclusion
• References.