East Asia has witnessed rapid transformations alongside persistent traditions in gender relations and gender beliefs within and beyond families. Education expansion and economic development have provided women with greater opportunities for empowerment and self-realization beyond the domestic sphere. However, women continue to face signiciant career barriers in the public domain and pervasive gender stereotypes in private lives. Meanwhile, men have been repositioned differently within the evolving sociocultural landscapes, where their individualistic aspirations are often framed as contributing to familial well-being and communal development. Despite the general perception of East Asia as a region deeply rooted in patriarchy and familism, it is crucial to recogonize the substantial variations in how East Asian societies experience value shifts alongside economic development, as well as the diversity in gender beliefs and gender relations across social groups and subnational regions.
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This special issue will build on existing studies on gender relations and gender beliefs in East Asia and present cutting-edge research on the emerging themes:
How gender dynamics unfold as people navigate diverse intimate and family relations, including but not limited to singlehood, dating, cohabitation, marriage, divorce, parenthood, etc.
How gender relations and gender beliefs have shifted amidst an era of uncertainty marked by economic slow-down, fluctuation, precarity, and the rising gig economy.
To what extent social institutions of property structures, legal titles, political participation, migration and mobility chances, etc. have been gendered or de-gendered.
How gender equality efforts have been negotiated, coordinated, and mediated, given institutional and sociocultural hurdles, and how communities, governments, and organizations have adapted their positions and strategies in dealing with gender issues.
We invite sociological and interdisciplinary perspectives on theoretical development and empirical research that speak to the themes of this special issue.
Guest Editors
Key Dates
We welcome an initial abstract submission by Feb 28th, 2025, to be sent to jingsong@cuhk.edu.hk with the manuscript title and the author(s)' affiliation, and we will respond within one month to those who are invited to submit the manuscript. The deadline to submit the full manuscripts is June 30th, 2025 via the CJS online submission system (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cjsocio).
This Special Issue is estimated to be published in October 2026.
We would greatly appreciate you spreading this call as widely as possible and considering contributing. If you have any questions, please get in touch with CJS@oa.shu.edu.cn.
编辑、排版：王璐莹
初审：特日乐
复审：王璐莹
终审：纪莺莺
Chinese Journal of Sociology
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2015年3月创刊，季刊，是由上海大学主办、普林斯顿大学当代中国研究中心协办、Sage出版发行的高水平国际化英文学术期刊，全程实行双向匿名评审。CJS已被ESCI（影响因子1.4，Q2）、Scopus（引用分1.7，Q2）、ProQuest收录，是中国人文社会科学期刊AMI综合评价入库期刊，在中科院期刊分区表中位于4区。
CJS注重理论研究、定量研究与质性研究之间的平衡，关注中国社会的本土问题，以本土和国际双重视角审视和解读中国在历史变革过程中所产生的社会公平、社会分层与流动、社会组织与治理、社会福利与政策，以及城镇化、移民、家庭、性别、环境等等一系列社会现象。
影响因子：1.4
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