Brides on Sale : Taiwanese Cross-Border Marriages in a Globalizing Asia

Todd Sandel

ISBN 10: 1433127814 / ISBN 13: 9781433127816

Edité par Peter Lang, 2015

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Beginning in the 1990s large numbers of women from Mainland China and Southeast Asia married men in Taiwan. They now number over 400,000, warranting some to call them 'Taiwan's Fifth Ethnic Group'. This book argues that the rise of these marriages is a gendered and relational phenomenon, linked to the forces of globalization. Traditional ideas of marriage, such as the belief that a woman 'marries out' of her natal family to be dependent upon her husband and his family, and the idea that a man should 'marry down' to a woman of a lesser social and economic status, have not kept pace with changes in women's educational and career opportunities. How these relationships are formed, how they impact gendered understandings of women and men, how families are constituted and relationships developed, and how they affect the children of these families and their education, are the issues explored in this book. It breaks new ground in our understanding of transnational and cross-border marriages by looking at the long-term effects of such marriages on communities, families, and individuals.

N° de réf. du vendeur 9781433127816

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• Titre: Brides on Sale : Taiwanese Cross-Border Marriages in a Globalizing Asia
• Éditeur: Peter Lang
• Date de parution: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1433127814
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781433127816
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 231 L x 155 H x 16 P (en millimètres) 231 millimètres de largeur par 155 millimètres de hauteur par 16 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 439 grammes

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Synopsis

Beginning in the 1990s large numbers of women from Mainland China and Southeast Asia married men in Taiwan. They now number over 400,000, warranting some to call them "Taiwan's Fifth Ethnic Group". This book argues that the rise of these marriages is a gendered and relational phenomenon, linked to the forces of globalization. Traditional ideas of marriage, such as the belief that a woman "marries out" of her natal family to be dependent upon her husband and his family, and the idea that a man should "marry down" to a woman of a lesser social and economic status, have not kept pace with changes in women's educational and career opportunities. How these relationships are formed, how they impact gendered understandings of women and men, how families are constituted and relationships developed, and how they affect the children of these families and their education, are the issues explored in this book. It breaks new ground in our understanding of transnational and cross-border marriages by looking at the long-term effects of such marriages on communities, families, and individuals.

À propos de l'auteur

Todd L. Sandel (PhD, University of Illinois) is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Macau. A Fulbright Scholar, he is past Chair of the LSI Division of the National Communication Association, and President of the Association for Chinese Communication Studies.