Development Interventions, Gender and Social Change in Rural China - Yang, Lichao
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"This fascinating study is one of the first to subject community development interventions in China, which espouse 'gender mainstreaming', 'empowerment' and 'participation,' to rigorous critique. Drawing on ethnographic research into one community development project conducted in three villages, the book provides a wonderfully rich and nuanced picture of the complicated relationship between external development interventions, local gender and other power relations, and social change. It will provide much food for thought for scholars, students and development activists interested in gender,…mehr

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"This fascinating study is one of the first to subject community development interventions in China, which espouse 'gender mainstreaming', 'empowerment' and 'participation,' to rigorous critique. Drawing on ethnographic research into one community development project conducted in three villages, the book provides a wonderfully rich and nuanced picture of the complicated relationship between external development interventions, local gender and other power relations, and social change. It will provide much food for thought for scholars, students and development activists interested in gender, community development and China." Tamara Jacka, Senior Fellow, Australian National University
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Lichao Yang is an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Development and Public Policy, Beijing Normal University. She obtained her Doctoral Degree in Gender Studies from the Australian National University in 2012. Her research interests include development studies, gender and social change in contemporary China, and environmental health.