Women of China: Economic and Social Transformation

by J. West (Editor), M. Zhao (Editor), X. Chang (Editor), Y. Cheng (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349409846
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1999
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

CJACKIE WEST is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bristol.

ZHAO MINGHUA is a Research Associate in Sociology at the University of Bristol.

CHANG XIANGQUN is a Research Officer and PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the China Research Unit, City University.

CHENG YUAN formerly research fellow at the Policy Studies Institute in London.

Table of 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

Editorial Reviews

This group of Chinese scholars provides an inside look at the changes women have encountered and instigated in post-Mao China. Evolving out of a research seminar of Chinese women scholars in Britain in preparation for the UN Fourth World Conference of Women in Beijing in 1995, this volume tackles issues such as women's political participation, women's status in the rural reform movements, the role of women in labor migration and in the textile industry, women's perspectives on the one-child family, and the development of women's studies programs in China's universities. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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