Women and poverty in Hong Kong: power in the economy, the state and discourse.

Wu, Ka Ming.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 155-163).Abstracts in English and Chinese.Abstract --- p.i-iiiTable of Content --- p.iv-vAbbreviations --- p.viChapter Chapter One --- Introduction: Women and Poverty in Hong Kong --- p.1Poor Women: Where and Who are They?Research Purpose and QuestionsResearch MethodologySome Research ReflectionsChapter Chapter Two --- "Engendering the Question of Poverty: Power in Economy, State and Discourse" --- p.14Women and Development under Economic GlobalizationWorking Daughters Getting Old: The Hong Kong CaseHong Kong in the International Political EconomyPoor Women: The Opposition of Workers and CitizensWelfare Perspectives: Three Different Theoretical StreamsThe Political Economy of Welfare StateFeminist Critique of Welfare StatePoor Women and Welfare Services in Hong KongThe Genealogy of Modern Power: Foucault on Power and DiscourseDiscourse AnalysisIdeology versus TruthThe Power of GazeThe Welfare Cut: The Poor as Objects of State InterventionPower/ KnowledgeChapter Chapter Three --- poor Women as Product of Economic Development: Changing Role of Hong Kong in the Global Economy --- p.45Changing Role of Hong Kong in the Global EconomyPoor Women after Economic RestructuringReproductive Work Positions: Sliding Ranks and SalariesNo Jobs for Poor MothersWorking Poor Mothers: Reconciling Paid Work and Family ResponsibilityFamilialism and the Incorporation of Women as LaborCapitalist Production of FamilialismThe Matron Workers in the 1970s vs the Disabled Women in the 1990sEntering the Information Age in the late 1990s: Poor Women and DevelopmentConclusionChapter Chapter Four --- "Women, Poverty and the Welfare System in Hong Kong " --- p.72Concern of Hong Kong Social PolicyThe Myth of Lassie-faire in Social WelfareProductivity: Philosophy of Hong Kong Social WelfareSingle Mothers as Study FocusWho has the Right to Social Welfare? The Breadwinner's MythHousing Problem for Single Mothers with ChildrenPoor Lives of Lone Mother: Child Caring and WorkWomen in Our Welfare System without CitizenshipChapter Chapter Five --- Discourse on the Welfare Cut: The Poor as Object of Intervention --- p.101Discursive AnalysisThe Arrival of Dependency Culture in Hong KongColonial Fear against the Poor: History of the Politics of WelfareThe Poor as the Object of Intervention"The Poor against the “Imagined Poor"" "The Construction of Social Subjectivities of the Lower ClassConclusion: Difficulty of the Underclass and their AgencyChapter Chapter Six --- Knowledge Production and Power Relation in Hong Kong --- p.124Social Welfare in Hong Kong: To Prevent People from Starving to DeathMake Money and Be Happy: People and Society in Hong KongChou's Discourse on Welfare in Hong KongThe Hidden Reality in the Affluent 1990sRocketing Welfare and Car CrashThe Meaning of Non-Interventionism: Government and Business InterestsNon-Interventionism as Ruling Success or Ruling Inability?Power/ Knowledge and the Politics of WritingConclusionChapter Chapter Seven --- Conclusion --- p.148Complicity of Economic DevelopmentComplicity of the GovernmentPower of DiscourseEffects of DiscourseDiscourse and Knowledge ProductionThe FutureBibliography --- p.15