WIAS Visiting Researcher Seminar :
“Global Parenting and the Unintended Gender Consequences: The Case of Taiwan” (November 20)
*Please note there is a change of the date. (November 6 → November 20)
講演者 / Speaker
LAN, Pei-Chia （Distinguished Professor, National Taiwan University）
日 時 / Date & Time
Wednesday, 20 November 2019, 16:00 – 17:00
会 場 / Venue
Room 513, 5F, Building 19, Waseda University
主 旨 / Outline
“Global Parenting and the Unintended Gender Consequences: The Case of Taiwan”
Based on my recent book Raising Global Families: Parenting, Immigration, and Class in Taiwan and the US (Stanford 2018), this talk examines the gendered consequence of “global parenting”—the repertoire and practice of childrearing is increasingly transformed by the transnational flows of idea, goods and people. With the declining fertility rate, the professional middle class in Taiwan are actively seeking cosmopolitan cultural resources and overseas educational opportunities to raise their precious children. Parents at the right end of the spectrum strive to cultivate children’s capacity for global competition. Parents at the left end draw on alternative curriculums to orchestrate an environment where they can achieve children’s “natural growth.” The divergent practices of global parenting have intensified the gender division of parenting labor as an unintended consequence. Although middle-class fathers are increasingly committed to the new paternal role, they feel pressured to invest more time and energy in breadwinning, including working overseas, to meet the rising costs of childrearing. Mothers are burdened with an increasing amount and a diverse range of mothering duties, either as the “educational mother” or “natural mother.”
言 語 / Language
English
対 象 / Prospected Audience
Faculty and staff members of a university, grad students, undergraduates, the general public
主 催 / Organizer
Institute of Asian Migrations, Comprehensive Research Organization, Waseda University
申込み / Registration
Free of charge. Please come to the event venue directly.
