Table of Contents

Preface

1. Introduction: Gender and Change in Hong Kong / Eliza W.Y.Lee

2. Engendering a Legal System: The Unique Challenge of PostcolonialHong Kong / Carole J. Petersen

3. Women’s Activism during Hong Kong’s PoliticalTransition / Lisa Fischler

4. Individualism and Patriarchy: The Identity of EntrepreneurialWomen Lawyers in Hong Kong / Eliza W.Y. Lee

5. Withering Away of the Hong Kong Dream? Women Workers underIndustrial Restructuring / Stephen Wing-Kai Chiu and Ching-KwanLee

6. Discourse on Baau Yih Naai (Keeping Concubines): Questions ofCitizenship and Identity in Postcolonial Hong Kong / Ka-MingWu

7. Negotiating Gender Identity: Postcolonialism and Hong KongChristian Women / Wai-Ching Wong

8. Empowering Mobility: "Astronaut" Women in Australia /Siumi Maria Tam

9. Prospects for the Development of a Critical Feminist Discourse /Eliza W.Y. Lee

Notes on Contributors

Index

Promotional Information

This sophisticated collection of essays provides an innovative analysisof gender relations at the nexus of globalization, Chinese patriarchy,and post-colonialism in Hong Kong.

About the Author

Eliza W.Y. Lee is an associate professor in theDepartment of Government and Public Administration at The ChineseUniversity of Hong Kong.

Reviews

This book is an important contribution to gender and change in Hong Kong, which is, in the words of the editor, “theoretically informed and grounded in concrete historical situations (p. vii). This multi-perspective, well-researched, and clearly written volume will be an important reference for researchers and students of political science, history, and sociology interested in gender issues in Hong Kong.
*China Review International, Fall 2004*

This is overall an insightful collection of essays.
*Canadian Literature, Spring 2006*