Everyday Gender at Work in Taiwan

• Main Author: Chin, Ting-Fang (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia
• Subjects: Women.; Industrial sociology.; Ethnology-Asia.; Women's Studies.; Sociology of Work.; Asian Culture.

This book explores professional women's experiences of gender in the Taiwanese workplace in the wake of the rapid transformation of the country's economy, identifying attitudes to gender in a heterosexist and heteronormative social culture. It contributes to understanding women's rela...

Table of Contents:

• Setting the Coordinates on the Intellectual Map of Gender, Work and Taiwan
• Lost and Found in the Field: Methodology and the Research Process
• Being Employed as a 'Nyusheng': Gendered and Heteronormative Management in the Workplace
• 'Don't' I Have a Brain and Hands?': Negotiating Gender in Mundane Interactions at work
• 'I Feel You Should Eat Shit': Picturing the Agency of the Misfit Self in the Workplace
• Conclusion.