"[Women's Working Lives in East Asia] provides much needed description and analyses around. . . . [themes] which have not previously been discusses in English-language scholarship."--Canadian Journal of Sociology Online
"The book is unusual for edited volumes in that the individual chapters come together in a unified, consistent argument. This book is a 'must read' and highly recommended for scholars of women's studies, economic development, and East Asian studies. It belongs in every research library. . . . "--Canadian Journal of Sociology Online

Mary C. Brinton is Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. She is the author of Women and the Economic Miracle: Gender and Work in Postwar Japan and the co-editor of The New Institutionalism in Sociology (Stanford paperback, 2001)