Chao-Ju Chen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4397759 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chao-Ju Chen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chao-Ju |
| FAMILY NAME | Chen |
| SIGNATURE | CHEN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Taiwan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7628-0294 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Who cares? The legal (non)recognition of caregiving by single and childfree aunts in Taiwan
Aunts remain the “forgotten kin” in family and kinship care studies, which largely center on parenthood and coupledom. Existing literature tends to subsume them under the broad category of extended family members, devoting scant scholarly attention to aunthood as a distinct category or to the relationship between aunthood and the law. This article addresses that gap and contributes to singlehood studies by examining the legal treatment of aunt ca…
Same-sex Marriage Legalization and the Stigmas of LGBT Co-parenting in Taiwan
In 2019, Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage. Celebrated as a victory for global lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights, Taiwan’s 2019 law privileges marriage and biological parent-child ties as the foundation for LGBT family rights and (co-)parental recognition. This article contributes to sociolegal debates about the benefits and limitations of marriage equality by asking how restrictive legal ap…
The Limits and Power of Law
The #MeToo movement gained global prominence after Hollywood celebrities came forward with their experiences of sexual violence and encouraged others to do the same. This was by no means the first time a woman had told the world of her experience of sexual violation, but this time, the powerful were paying attention: “Women have been saying these things forever. It is the response to them that has changed” (MacKinnon 2020, 7). High-quality invest…
Re-enter the job market
The study investigated the relationships between job satisfaction and career transition competency among middle-aged and older employees. The study adopted a survey method and used purposive sampling to recruit middle-aged and older employees in Taiwan as study participants. A total of 512 questionnaires were distributed, with a response rate of 96.68%. Two survey instruments were used in the questionnaire, namely a job satisfaction scale and a c…
The Chorus of Formal Equality
In Taiwan, paternal preference has a long history, and the introduction of the best interests of the child doctrine is a relatively new development attributed to the feminist legal reform movement. Yet anti-feminist fathers' rights movements, which are widespread in many countries, find no counterpart in Taiwan. This article explores the unusual relationship between feminist custody law reform and fathers' rights advocacy and argues that this rel…
Gender and Law in the Japanese Imperium
"Collectively, the essays [in this volume] offer a new framework for the history of gender in modern Japan and revise our understanding of both law and gender in an era shaped by modernization, nation and empire-building, war, occupation, and decolonization"--Jacket, page [3]
Choosing the Right to Choose
Chao-Ju Chen, Choosing the Right to Choose: Roe v. Wade and the Feminist Movement to Legalize Abortion in Martial-Law Taiwan, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 34, No. 3, Special Issue: Reproductive Technologies and Reproductive Justice (2013), pp. 73-101
Gendered Borders
What does the nation mean to women? How does the law draw national borders, and in what way is it gendered? This paper examines the ways in which women are related to the nation in Taiwan by discussing the legal regulation of nationality. Historically and contemporarily, the decisive and determinative power of the law in choosing members of the nation and in drawing national boundaries shapes women's overall relationship with the nation as an une…
The Difference that Differences Make
This article reviews feminist reflections on the politics of difference and examines the possibility of Asian feminism and its theoretical ground. I begin this article with a discussion on how a critique of the difference of ‘Asian women’ under western eyes—a difference that reveals the hierarchy of power—requires us to resist the western gaze. Such resistance can encourage one to explore and to theorize Asian feminism and this process of explori…
Gendered Borders
What does the nation mean to women? How does the law draw national borders, and in what way is it gendered? This paper examines the ways in which women are related to the nation in Taiwan by discussing the legal regulation of nationality. Historically and contemporarily, the decisive and determinative power of the law in choosing members of the nation and in drawing national boundaries shapes women's overall relationship with the nation as an une…
The Difference that Differences Make
This article reviews feminist reflections on the politics of difference and examines the possibility of Asian feminism and its theoretical ground. I begin this article with a discussion on how a critique of the difference of ‘Asian women’ under western eyes—a difference that reveals the hierarchy of power—requires us to resist the western gaze. Such resistance can encourage one to explore and to theorize Asian feminism and this process of explori…
Same-sex Marriage Legalization and the Stigmas of LGBT Co-parenting in Taiwan
In 2019, Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage. Celebrated as a victory for global lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights, Taiwan’s 2019 law privileges marriage and biological parent-child ties as the foundation for LGBT family rights and (co-)parental recognition. This article contributes to sociolegal debates about the benefits and limitations of marriage equality by asking how restrictive legal ap…
The Chorus of Formal Equality
In Taiwan, paternal preference has a long history, and the introduction of the best interests of the child doctrine is a relatively new development attributed to the feminist legal reform movement. Yet anti-feminist fathers' rights movements, which are widespread in many countries, find no counterpart in Taiwan. This article explores the unusual relationship between feminist custody law reform and fathers' rights advocacy and argues that this rel…
The Limits and Power of Law
The #MeToo movement gained global prominence after Hollywood celebrities came forward with their experiences of sexual violence and encouraged others to do the same. This was by no means the first time a woman had told the world of her experience of sexual violation, but this time, the powerful were paying attention: “Women have been saying these things forever. It is the response to them that has changed” (MacKinnon 2020, 7). High-quality invest…
The Difference that Differences Make
This article reviews feminist reflections on the politics of difference and examines the possibility of Asian feminism and its theoretical ground. I begin this article with a discussion on how a critique of the difference of ‘Asian women’ under western eyes—a difference that reveals the hierarchy of power—requires us to resist the western gaze. Such resistance can encourage one to explore and to theorize Asian feminism and this process of explori…
Gendered Borders
What does the nation mean to women? How does the law draw national borders, and in what way is it gendered? This paper examines the ways in which women are related to the nation in Taiwan by discussing the legal regulation of nationality. Historically and contemporarily, the decisive and determinative power of the law in choosing members of the nation and in drawing national boundaries shapes women's overall relationship with the nation as an une…
Gender and Law in the Japanese Imperium
"Collectively, the essays [in this volume] offer a new framework for the history of gender in modern Japan and revise our understanding of both law and gender in an era shaped by modernization, nation and empire-building, war, occupation, and decolonization"--Jacket, page [3]
Choosing the Right to Choose
Chao-Ju Chen, Choosing the Right to Choose: Roe v. Wade and the Feminist Movement to Legalize Abortion in Martial-Law Taiwan, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 34, No. 3, Special Issue: Reproductive Technologies and Reproductive Justice (2013), pp. 73-101
The Chorus of Formal Equality
In Taiwan, paternal preference has a long history, and the introduction of the best interests of the child doctrine is a relatively new development attributed to the feminist legal reform movement. Yet anti-feminist fathers' rights movements, which are widespread in many countries, find no counterpart in Taiwan. This article explores the unusual relationship between feminist custody law reform and fathers' rights advocacy and argues that this rel…
Re-enter the job market
The study investigated the relationships between job satisfaction and career transition competency among middle-aged and older employees. The study adopted a survey method and used purposive sampling to recruit middle-aged and older employees in Taiwan as study participants. A total of 512 questionnaires were distributed, with a response rate of 96.68%. Two survey instruments were used in the questionnaire, namely a job satisfaction scale and a c…
The Limits and Power of Law
The #MeToo movement gained global prominence after Hollywood celebrities came forward with their experiences of sexual violence and encouraged others to do the same. This was by no means the first time a woman had told the world of her experience of sexual violation, but this time, the powerful were paying attention: “Women have been saying these things forever. It is the response to them that has changed” (MacKinnon 2020, 7). High-quality invest…
Same-sex Marriage Legalization and the Stigmas of LGBT Co-parenting in Taiwan
In 2019, Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage. Celebrated as a victory for global lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights, Taiwan’s 2019 law privileges marriage and biological parent-child ties as the foundation for LGBT family rights and (co-)parental recognition. This article contributes to sociolegal debates about the benefits and limitations of marriage equality by asking how restrictive legal ap…
Who cares? The legal (non)recognition of caregiving by single and childfree aunts in Taiwan
Aunts remain the “forgotten kin” in family and kinship care studies, which largely center on parenthood and coupledom. Existing literature tends to subsume them under the broad category of extended family members, devoting scant scholarly attention to aunthood as a distinct category or to the relationship between aunthood and the law. This article addresses that gap and contributes to singlehood studies by examining the legal treatment of aunt ca…
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Family law (3 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works)