Jing Yang

Disability Identity and Marriage in Rural China

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on fieldwork in Bai Township, this book examines how women with disabilities in rural Southwest China compensate for their disability identity through marriage. As the first book to theorize the married life of rural women with disabilities, it traces the process from mate selection to wedding ceremony, fertility and role performance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 487g
• ISBN-13: 9781138106499
• ISBN-10: 1138106496
• Artikelnr.: 71631435

Autorenporträt

Jing Yang is Assistant Professor of the Sociology Department at Guizhou University, China. Her recent publications include Rehabilitation Work (2011, co-edited) and Service and Rehabilitation for People with Disabilities in Rural China (2008)

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Grounded theory method and married women with disabilities
in Bai Township 2. Disability identity in the village environment 3.
Disabled matching: the process of mate selection 4. Being daughters-in-law
with disabilities 5. Becoming wives with disabilities 6. Being mothers with
disabilities 7. Towards a conceptualization of compensating for disability
identity through marriages for women in rural areas of China 8. Integrating
compensating for disability identity with the literature 9. Conclusions