Gender in Flux

Agency and Its Limits in Contemporary China
Herausgeber: Evans, Harriet; Strauss, Julia C

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on recent research and insights from political activism, the volume explores changing manifestations and articulations of gender in China.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781107662384
• ISBN-10: 1107662389
• Artikelnr.: 33771863

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: gender, agency and social change Harriet Evans and Julia C.
Strauss; 1. Creating a socialist feminist cultural front: women of China
(1949¿1966) Wang Zheng; 2. Embodied activisms: the case of the Mu Guiyang
Brigade Kimberley Ens Manning; 3. From the Heyang model to the Shaanxi
model: action research on women's participation in village governance Gao
Xiaoxian; 4. Bridging divides and breaking homes: young women's lifecycle
labour mobility as a family managerial strategy Shannon May; 5. Family
strategies: fluidities of gender, community and mobility in rural west
China Ellen R. Judd; 6. Income, work preferences and gender roles among
parents of infants in urban China: a mixed method study from Nanjing Sung
won Kim, Vanessa L. Fong, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Niobe Way, Xinyin Chen,
Huihua Deng and Zuhong Lu; 7. Intergenerational transmission of family
property and family management in urban China Danning Wang; 8. The gender
of communication: changing expectations of mothers and daughters in urban
China Harriet Evans.