Everyday Gender at Work in Taiwan

Looks at how gender works in the workplace in East Asia and identifies attitudes to gender in a heterosexist and heteronormative professional social culture. Provide an inclusive investigation into women's gendered working interactions and practices.

Considers the strategies women use to navigate the issue of gender in the workplace and achieve their own personal and career goals.

Autorentext
Ting-Fang Chin holds a PhD from the Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York. Her research focus is on investigating women's experience of gender in everyday interactions and quotidian practices. She is currently expanding her study on gender and work as well as engaging in research on marriage equality in Taiwan.

Inhalt

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.