Women of China : Economic and Social Transformation -- Hardback

Yuan, Cheng

Palgrave Macmillan（1999/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 264 p.
• 商品コード 9780333740880
• DDC分類 305.420951

Full Description

This wide-ranging and interdisciplinary collection brings together scholars from China and the West to examine the many dimensions of debate around gender issues in contemporary China. The experiences of women in education, employment, marriage and the family, in rural and urban areas are analysed and assessed.

Contents

List of Tables List of Figures Foreword Preface and Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: State and Economy in the Making of Women's Lives; Zhao.M & J.West PART I: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC TRANSITIONS State-society Relations and Women's Political Participation; Qi.W Understanding Changes in Women's Status in the Context of Recent Rural Reform; Zhang.H.X. PART II: GENDER, MIGRATION AND LABOUR MARKETS The Role of Women in Labour Migration: a Case Study in Northern China; Song.L Divided Gender, Divided Women: State Policy and the Labour Market; Huang.X From Weaving Stars to Bitter Flowers: Tradition, Reform and Women Textile Workers; Zhao.M PART III: FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD RELATIONS To Have a Son: the One Child Family Policy and Economic Change in Rural China; Mu.A 'Fat Pigs' and Women's Gifts: Agnatic and Non-agnatic Social Support Relationships in Kaixiangong Village; Chang.X Rural Privatisation and Women's Labour: Property Rights and Gender Concepts in Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang; Zhang.M PART IV: ORGANISING FOR CHANGE Women and the Public Sphere: Education, NGO Affiliation and Political Participation; Shang.X The Development of Women's Studies: from the 1980s to the Present; Mu.D Index