Women, Kinship and Social
Transformations
When I grew up in the
1970s, my successful working mother strategically arranged to live next to her
own mother. My mom went out to work in the day time and I was cared by my
grandmother. My grandmothers’ love to me more than any other love I’ve
experienced in all my life and yet she often told me since I was young, ‘you are
my daughters’ daughter, and thus not belong to my family…’.
My Ph.D. research was set
out to explore women’s changing identities and the workings of patriliny in
urban families in 20th century Taiwan.
Publications
2005,
‘“Modern” Daughters-in-law in Colonial Taiwanese Families’. In the
Journal of Family History, 30 (2):191-209. (SSCI)
2003, Transforming Patriarchal Kinship Relations: Four Generations of
“Modern” Women in
Taiwan, 1900-1999.
Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Sociology, University of Essex. (pls contact me if
you wish to read this thesis.)
Conference paper
2005, ‘Transforming
Patrilineal Kinship Structures: Diverse Divisions of Domestic Work, 1970-1999’
Annual Conference of Taiwanese Sociology Association, Taipei University,
Taiwan, 20 Nov. 2005. (In Chinese)
2005, ‘Becoming Westernized or Staying Filial?
Dilemmas of Contemporary Daughters-in-law in Urban Taiwan’. Women's World
2005,9th
International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women,Ewha
Women’s University,19-24,June
2005.
2002, ‘Gender as
difference: Chinese gender relations in three-generation Taiwanese families.’
Annual Conference of British Sociology Association,
University of Leicester, U.K., 25-27 March 2002 |