Gender and Family in East Asia : Routledge : 9780415715898 : 041571589X : 30 Jan 2014 : "The on-going reconfiguration of geo-political and economic forces across the globe has created a new institutional and moral environment for East Asian family life and gender dynamics. Indeed, modernisation in East Asia has brought about increases in women's education levels and rate of participation in the labour force, a delay in marriage age, lower birth rates, and smaller family size. And yet, despite the process of modernization, traditional systems such as Confucianism and its patriarchal rules, continue to shape gender politics and family relationships in East Asia. This book examines gender politics and family culture in East Asia in light of both the overwhelming changes that modernization and globalization has brought to the region, and structural restrictions that women in East Asian societies continue to face in their daily lives. Across three sections, the contributors to this volume f