Gender RolesBooks

Ifi Amadiume’s study of Nnobi society separates social roles such as daughter and husband from anatomical sex, while tracing how colonial rule narrowed women’s political and economic authority.

Joan C. Tronto recasts care as a central public concern of democracy, asking who sustains life, who is permitted to evade care, and how markets produce a democratic care deficit.

Wei-hsin Yu compares half a century of women’s employment in Japan and Taiwan, showing why organizational arrangements, industrial policy, and life-course institutions matter beyond shared patriarchal culture.