Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Note on Transcription ix
Introduction Stevan Harrell Gonçalo Santos 3
Part 1 Rural Reconfigurations
Chapter 1 Dutiful Help: Masking Rural Women's Economic Contributions Melissa J. Brown 39
Chapter 2 From Care Providers to Financial Burdens: The Changing Role of Sons and Reproductive Choice in Rural Northeast China Lihong Shi 59
Chapter 3 Higher Education, Gender, and Elder Support in Rural Northwest China Helena Obendiek 74
Chapter 4 Multiple Mothering and Labor Migration in Rural South China Gonçalo Santos 91
Part 2 Class, Gender, and Patriarchy in Urban Society
Chapter 5 Urbanization and the Transformation of Kinship Practice in Shandong Andrew B. Kipnis 113
Chapter 6 Being the Right Woman for "Mr. Right": Marriage and Household Politics in Present-Day Nanjing Roberta Zavoretti 129
Chapter 7 Emergent Conjugal Love, Mutual Affection, and Female Marital Power William Jankowiak Xuan Li 146
Chapter 8 Under Pressure: Lesbian-Gay Contract Marriages and Their Patriarchal Bargains Elisabeth L. Engebretsen 163
Chapter 9 Patriarchal investments: Expectations of Male Authority and Support in a Poor Beijing Neighborhood Harriet Evans 182
Part 3 New Technologies, New Institutions
Chapter 10 Taking Patriarchy Out of Postpartum Recovery? Suzanne Gottschang 201
Chapter 11 Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Sperm Donation, and Biological Kinship: A Recent Chinese Media Debate Kerstin Klein 219
Chapter 12 Recalibrating Filial Piety: Realigning the State, Family, and Market Interests in China Hong Zhang 234
Glossary 251
References 257
List of Contributors 285
Index 290