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-iii / Table of Content --- p.iv-v / Abbreviations --- p.vi / Chapter Chapter One --- Introduction: Women and Poverty in Hong Kong --- p.1 / Poor Women: Where and Who are They? / Research Purpose and Questions / Research Methodology / Some Research Reflections / Chapter Chapter Two --- "Engendering the Question of Poverty: Power in Economy, State and Discourse" --- p.14 / Women and Development under Economic Globalization / Working Daughters Getting Old: The Hong Kong Case / Hong Kong in the International Political Economy / Poor Women: The Opposition of Workers and Citizens / Welfare Perspectives: Three Different Theoretical Streams / The Political Economy of Welfare State / Feminist Critique of Welfare State / Poor Women and Welfare Services in Hong Kong / The Genealogy of Modern Power: Foucault on Power and Discourse / Discourse Analysis / Ideology versus Truth / The Power of Gaze / The Welfare Cut: The Poor as Objects of State Intervention / Power/ Knowledge / Chapter Chapter Three --- poor Women as Product of Economic Development: Changing Role of Hong Kong in the Global Economy --- p.45 / Changing Role of Hong Kong in the Global Economy / Poor Women after Economic Restructuring / Reproductive Work Positions: Sliding Ranks and Salaries / No Jobs for Poor Mothers / Working Poor Mothers: Reconciling Paid Work and Family Responsibility / Familialism and the Incorporation of Women as Labor / Capitalist Production of Familialism / The Matron Workers in the 1970s vs the Disabled Women in the 1990s / Entering the Information Age in the late 1990s: Poor Women and Development / Conclusion / Chapter Chapter Four --- "Women, Poverty and the Welfare System in Hong Kong " --- p.72 / Concern of Hong Kong Social Policy / The Myth of Lassie-faire in Social Welfare / Productivity: Philosophy of Hong Kong Social Welfare / Single Mothers as Study Focus / Who has the Right to Social Welfare? The Breadwinner's Myth / Housing Problem for Single Mothers with Children / Poor Lives of Lone Mother: Child Caring and Work / Women in Our Welfare System without Citizenship / Chapter Chapter Five --- Discourse on the Welfare Cut: The Poor as Object of Intervention --- p.101 / Discursive Analysis / The Arrival of Dependency Culture in Hong Kong / Colonial Fear against the Poor: History of the Politics of Welfare / The Poor as the Object of Intervention / "The Poor against the “Imagined Poor"" " / The Construction of Social Subjectivities of the Lower Class / Conclusion: Difficulty of the Underclass and their Agency / Chapter Chapter Six --- Knowledge Production and Power Relation in Hong Kong --- p.124 / Social Welfare in Hong Kong: To Prevent People from Starving to Death / Make Money and Be Happy: People and Society in Hong Kong / Chou's Discourse on Welfare in Hong Kong / The Hidden Reality in the Affluent 1990s / Rocketing Welfare and Car Crash / The Meaning of Non-Interventionism: Government and Business Interests / Non-Interventionism as Ruling Success or Ruling Inability? / Power/ Knowledge and the Politics of Writing / Conclusion / Chapter Chapter Seven --- Conclusion --- p.148 / Complicity of Economic Development / Complicity of the Government / Power of Discourse / Effects of Discourse / Discourse and Knowledge Production / The Future / Bibliography --- p.155