Browsing by Subject "Taiwan"

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    • Gender mainstreaming and gender policies in contemporary Taiwan 

      Chang, Doris T. (Bridgewater State University, 2018-08)
      In 1995, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (hereafter referred to as the Platform for Action) promulgated during the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women called for the use of gender mainstreaming ...

    • Legalisation of same-sex marriage in contemporary Taiwan 

      Chang, Doris T. (Brill Academic Publishers, 2020-08-20)
      In 2019 Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage pursuant to the Constitutional Court's decision two years earlier. This article adds to previous research on same-sex marriage in Taiwan in two ...

    • Studies of Taiwan's feminist discourses and women's movements 

      Chang, Doris T. (Brill Academic Publishers, 2018-02)
      In the twentieth century, Taiwanese feminists have selectively appropriated various strands of Western feminism to improve women's status and meet women's needs. In this article, several scholarly works pertaining to the ...

    • Theme and variation in Chinese religion 

      Maurine, Huang (Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honor Society at Wichita State University, 1986)
      This paper is a study of religious differences and similarities as reported in ethnographies from Taiwan. The paper descusses the calendrical observations of the Lunar New Year and the birthday or other celebrations ...

    • Transformation of women’s status in Taiwan, 1920-2020 

      Chang, Doris T. (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2022-01-18)
      This chapter surveys the continuities and changes of Taiwanese women’s status and roles in the family and society in the past century. The four key topics in women’s roles and status in marriage and the family, educational ...

    • What can Taiwan and the United States learn from each other's guest worker programs? 

      Chang, Doris T. (SAGE Publications, 2010)
      This study argues that employers in newly industrialized societies such as Taiwan, like their counterparts in postindustrial economies such as the United States, practice outsourcing and recruitment of guest workers in the ...