The underbelly of the tiger: gender and the demystification of the Asian miracle

Trương, Thanh-Đạm

doi:10.1080/096922999347263

Cited by 37 publications

(11 citation statements)

References 16 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…As Thanh-Dam Truong (1999) observes, the rise of industrialization is also the product of conflicts around gender, and specifically around the role of gendered classes and forms of labor. Truong notes the rise of the "feminization" of industrial relations--in which women are the inevitable losers--highlights that the "Asian miracle" is a "fully gendered process" (1999: 158).…”

Section: Communities and Consumptionmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…In a 10-year period since the crisis, the region has developed and adapted its technological and economic global power into ideological prowess-a phenomenon that Arif Dirlik characterized as defining the region as the twenty-first-century's "Global South" (2007). The instrumental role of technology in the region's recovery highlights specific sociocultural and political economy powers at work; forces that are interrelated with emerging transnational forms of globalization, labor (Truong 1999;Parreñas 2001), and consumption in the region. The region provides one of the most compelling models for the meeting of two worlds-industrial and postindustrial material and immaterial practices.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Web U2: Emerging Online Communities and Gendered Intimacy in the Asia-Pacific region

Hjorth

2009

Know Techn Pol

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Unquestionably, the zeitgeist of Web 2.0 is symbolized by the dominance of social networking sites (SNS) and user-created content (UCC). MySpace, Facebook, and Cyworld mini-hompy are but a few examples of SNS that are becoming increasingly part of urban everyday life and interwoven into the historicity of the Internet. Web 2.0 has promised much about new forms of participation, creation, collaboration, and authorship, and yet within each location, we can find examples of both empowerment and exploitation. This is particularly the case in the divergent region of the Asia-Pacific. Rather than the region being a sum of "imagined communities" (Anderson 1983), this paper argues that the distributed social networks of Web 2.0 UCC is formed, informed, and maintained through the perpetual process of "imaging communities." These imaging communities can be seen in the visual, textual, and aural modes of UCC and can be seen to reflect the region's new technocultural cartographies.

show abstract

Section: Communities and Consumptionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Web U2: Emerging Online Communities and Gendered Intimacy in the Asia-Pacific region

Hjorth

2009

Know Techn Pol

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Here, the general hypothesis is that greater resources will allow women to progress in comparison to men: H 6 Women's status will be higher in societies in which they possess more resources. The indicators for each of the four conceptual categories (economic development level, women's status, quality of life, and women's resources) were taken from the United Nations ' Human Development Report 2002(2002 and are listed in Table 1. Development level was measured by a nation's GDP (gross domestic product) for 2000, adjusting for differing national costs-of-living in the purchasing power parity (PPP) index.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“… See Anker and Hein 1986;Boserup 1970; Bourque 1989; Chowdhury and Nelson 1994; Jaquette 1982; Leahy 1986; Nash and Fernandez-Kelly 1983; Rogers 1979;Roy 1994;Scott 1995; Tinker 1990;Tinker and Bramsen 1976;Truong 1999; Wellesley Editorial Committee 1977. …”

mentioning

confidence: 98%

The Status of Women and the Quality of Life in Developing Societies

Clark¹,

Clark²

2004

Perspect Global Dev Technol

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper applies aggregate data analysis to explore the relationships among the economic development level, the status of women, and the quality of life in developing societies. In particular, it tests the hypothesis that the status of women is positively related to the quality of life even after the effects of economic growth and development are statistically controlled. Our analysis strongly confirms this hypothesis since the status of women in a society appears to rival the economic development level for explaining how good or ill is the quality of life enjoyed by its citizens. We undertook this study from the theoretical perspective that questions conceptualizing and measuring development simply in terms of the level and growth of GNP per capita. Rather, the social needs and quality of life in a society, the presumed consequences of development, are important as well.

show abstract

“…In some social formations -such as the 'developmentalist' (Truong, 1999). Semi-formalisation of work in commercial sexual services and care provision arise in parallel to the growth of a consumer society (Lim, 1998, Chin, 1998Li/Findlay/Jones, 1998;Chang/ Ling, 2000).…”

Section: Neo-liberal Governmentality Gender and Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

The underbelly of the tiger: gender and the demystification of the Asian miracle

Cited by 37 publications

References 16 publications

Web U2: Emerging Online Communities and Gendered Intimacy in the Asia-Pacific region

Web U2: Emerging Online Communities and Gendered Intimacy in the Asia-Pacific region

The Status of Women and the Quality of Life in Developing Societies

Human Security and the Governmentality of Neo-liberal Mobility: A Feminist Perspective

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About