Gendered Morality Tales: Discourses of Gender, Labour, and Value in Globalising Asia
通过亚洲案例，探讨全球化中灵活女性劳动力与父权再生产模式如何催生贬低女性及其劳动的道德话语，揭示这些叙事如何支撑新自由主义经济并反映边缘群体的抗争。
Across Asia, the pursuit of national and global capital accumulation has relied on flexible, feminised work forces and patriarchal models of social reproduction. These gendered patterns of production and reproduction, while central to Asia’s neoliberal ‘miracle’ economies, have also generated powerful discourses that devalue women and their work. Drawing on case studies from across the region, this paper examines the links between these globalising dynamics and provocative local depictions of Asian women as active, desiring, and immoral. These ‘gendered morality tales’ reveal the complex cultural and ideological work that sustains neoliberal models of national economic development. At the same time, these moralising narratives offer insight into the localised negotiations through which marginalised and gendered citizens confront their subordination within the region’s hierarchically ordered political economies.