Patriarchy in East Asia -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction: Toward a Comparative Sociology of Gender -- 1. A Sociology of Gender -- 2. The Meaning of Comparison -- 3. The Meaning of Making East Asia the Subject -- PART ONE -- 1. What is Patriarchy? -- 1. Bringing Order to the Discussion of Patriarchy -- 2. The Use of Patriarchy in Cultural Anthropology and Sociology -- 2.1. Uses of the Concept in Cultural Anthropology -- 2.2. Uses of the Concept in Sociology -- 2.3. The Household System and Patriarchy in Japan -- 3. How the Concept of Patriarchy is used by Feminists in the West -- 3.1. Attempts to Investigate Psychological Origins -- 3.2. Currents in the Study of Historical Origins -- 3.3. Usage in Marxist Feminism -- 4. Building a Broadly Applicable Concept of Patriarchy -- 4.1. Peeling away the Layers of Danger Wrapped Around the Concept of Patriarchy -- 4.2. Generation and Age as Elements -- 4.3. Patriarchy as an Analytical Concept with the Greatest Common Denominator -- 4.4. Describing the Forms of Patriarchy -- 2. The Emergence of the Housewife and Transformations in Her Position -- 1. Married Women Become Housewives and a Source of Labor -- 1.1. Our Focus: Housewives and Women's Advance into Society -- 2. Charting the Course of the Emergence of the Housewife -- 2.1. Primitive Labor Relations -- 2.2. The Advent of the Modern Housewife -- 2.3. Contemporary Housewives -- 2.4. The Disappearance of the Housewife -- 3. Socialist Models -- 3.1. Building Socialism -- 3.2. Indigenization of Socialism -- PART TWO -- 3. The Japanese Housewife and Patriarchy -- 1. Emergence from Primitive Labor Relations -- 1.1. Patterns in the Labor Force -- 1.2. Forms of Female Labor -- 1.3. An Expansion of Workers' Incomes.

2. Background for Emergence of Japan's Modern Patriarchy-Confucianism and the Ideal of the Good Wife and Wise Mother -- 2.1. Premodern East Asian Concepts of Women's Education -- 2.2. Origin of the Idea of the Good Wife and Wise Mother (or Wise Wife and Good Mother) in China and Korea -- 2.3. The Formation of the Ideology of the Good Wife and Wise Mother in Japan -- 2.4. The Aim of the Ideological Campaign -- 2.5. The Japanese Form of Modern Patriarchy -- 3. The Advent of the Modern Housewife -- 3.1. The Modern Housewife and a New View of the Family -- 3.2. Duties of the Modern Housewife-Rational Household Management and Housework as Women's Natural Occupation -- 3.3. The Culture Surrounding the Modern Housewife -- 3.4. Salarymen and Professional Women -- 4. The Modern Housewife in Wartime Conditions-Motherhood Emphasized Once Again -- 4. Contemporary Patriarchy and the Housewife in Japan -- 1. Postwar Economic Growth and New Forms of Industrialization -- 1.1. The Spread of a Contemporary Lifestyle -- 1.2. Labor Policies and Transitions in the Workforce -- 2. Formation of New Patriarchal Norms -- 2.1. Japan's Contemporary Patriarchy -- 3. How the Agent has Responded -- 3.1. Reduction of Time Needed for Housework -- 3.2. Tendency for Role of Housewife in Reproduction to Persist -- 4. The Contemporary Housewife in Japan -- 4.1. Home Life of the Japanese Contemporary Housewife -- 4.2. Entry of Contemporary Housewives into Production -- 5. Problems in Contemporary Japanese Patriarchy -- PART THREE -- 5. South Korean Patriarchy -- 1. Industrialization in South Korea -- 2. The Background of South Korean Patriarchy -- 2.1. The Acceptance and Spread of Confucianism -- 2.2. Yangban Confucian Norms and Women -- 3. Forms of South Korean Women's Employment.

3.1. Forms of Employment when Modern and Contemporary Housewives Emerged -- 3.2. Forms of South Korean Women's Employment -- 4. South Korean Patriarchy -- 4.1. Gender-Based Allocation of Power and Roles -- 4.2. Views on the Family and Generations -- 6. Taiwanese Patriarchy -- 1. Industrialization in Taiwan -- 1.1. The Process of Industrialization -- 1.2. Comparison with South Korea -- 1.3. Women's Labor -- 2. The Background of Taiwanese Patriarchy -- 2.1. Taiwan's Ethnic Makeup -- 2.2. Modes of Family Life and Work in Southern China -- 2.3. The Formation of Taiwanese Patriarchy -- 3. Forms of Women's Employment in Taiwan -- 3.1. Trends when the Modern and then the Contemporary Housewife were Born -- 3.2. Patterns of Women's Employment in Taiwan -- 4. The Taiwanese Model of Patriarchy -- 4.1. Gender-based Allocations of Roles and Power -- 4.2. Generation and Age in Taiwanese Management -- 7. Patriarchy in North Korea -- 1. Socialist Construction -- 1.1. Policy Development and Views on Women -- 2. Indigenization -- 2.1. Kim Il Sung Idolatry Resonates with Tradition -- 2.2. Establishing the Kim System -- 2.3. Kim Il Sung's System and a Nation-State with a Patriarchal Order -- 2.4. Changes in the View of Women -- 8. Patriarchy in China -- 1. Building Socialism -- 1.1. From the Soviet Period to the Marriage Law -- 1.2. From the Great Leap Forward to the Cultural Revolution -- 1.3. A Comparison of the Kim Il Sung System and the Cultural Revolution -- 2. Moving away from Socialism or Indigenization, Compromising with Tradition -- 2.1. Economic Reform and "Er Bao Yi" -- 2.2. The Struggle around the Idea of Women Returning to the Home -- 3. Gender Issues in China-Now and in the Future -- 3.1. Farming Villages -- 3.2. Cities -- 3.3. Future Gender Problems in China.

9. Recent Social and Political Changes in East Asia -- 1. Declining Birth Rates and Destabilization of Marriage -- 2. Patterns of Women's Labor -- 2.1. The Position of Housewives and the Relationship between Educational Levels and Women's Participation in the Labor Force -- 2.2. The "M" Curve Illustrating Women's Employment -- 3. Employment Patterns among Older Citizens -- 3.1. Differences in Desire to Work -- 3.2. Data on Types of Work and Level of Education -- 4. North Korea Pushes ahead with its Own Line -- 5. Life in China under a Socialist Market Economy -- 10. Conclusions -- 1. Comparative Sociology of Gender in East Asia -- 2. Looking for Approaches to Resolving Women's Issues in Contemporary Japan -- 2.1. Comparing Systems for Bearing the Cost of Reproduction -- 2.2. Moving beyond Patriarchy -- Afterword: A Man Concerned About Gender Equality? -- Afterword to the English edition -- Bibliography -- Index.