This book would be a good read for anyone interested in exploring how gender roles are changing in East and Southeast Asia. The book provides a comparative analysis of six countries in the region and delves deeply into people's everyday experiences and how they shape childcare networks. The unique theoretical focal points of modernization and globalization provide insightful perspectives on how cultural and historical differences have shaped these changes.

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Asia's New Mothers , through a focus on childcare, offers a comparative regional analysis unique in English-language sources of changing gender roles in East and Southeast Asia. Taking into consideration the historical and cultural differences and similarities among the societies in the region, the authors employ indepth researches of people's everyday experiences. The research was conducted between 2001 and 2003 in six societies in East and Southeast Asia - Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Thailand and Singapore. While each makes its own unique contributions, most of the essays are informed by two theoretical focal modernization and gender and globalization and gender.

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