Gender And Power In Rural North China

Author : Ellen R. Judd
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804726986
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Power in Rural North China written by Ellen R. Judd and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the link between the everyday relations of gender and the reform of the rural political economy in the 1980's, and argues that the reconstitution of the Chinese state in the reform era draws force and authority from the inherent politics and power of gender.

Author : Tamara Jacka
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085793354X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Gender and Rural Development in China written by Tamara Jacka and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's countryside is being transformed by rapid, far-reaching development. This wide-reaching and multidisciplinary book questions whether gender politics are changing in response to this development, and explores how gender politics inform and are reproduced or reconfigured in the languages, knowledge, processes and practices of development in rural China. The contributors - prominent scholars in the fields of political science, sociology, gender, development and Chinese studies - argue that although gender has been elided in recent development policies, women have been singled out as a 'vulnerable group' requiring protection, instruction and 'empowerment' from paternalistic state and NGOs. Nevertheless, development has facilitated the dissemination of gender equality as an ideal and institutional norm, increased the channels through which women can advance claims for equal rights, and expanded the possibilities for agency available to them. Drawing on extensive field research in sites across China, from remote communities in Inner Mongolia and Guizhou to the fringes of expanding cities, the contributors illustrate how different women are bringing their own aspirations for development to bear in the momentous changes occurring in rural China. This compelling and thought-provoking book will be of interest to scholars, students and researchers in the fields of public and social policy, sociology, political economy, anthropology, gender and development.

Author : Tamara Jacka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521599283
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Work in Rural China written by Tamara Jacka and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on interviews with rural Chinese women, officials and social scientists, and on Chinese newspapers, journals and academic reports. Analyses the situation of women of Han nationality with rural household registration, most of whom worked in townships and villages, but some of whom worked in cities. Delineates patterns in gender divisions of labour in the context of economic reform.

Author : Yunxiang Yan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789889756390
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Girl Power written by Yunxiang Yan and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ellen R. Judd
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804744065
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Women’s Movement Between State and Market written by Ellen R. Judd and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of how the women's movement in China took advantage of the government's official efforts to position women in the rural economic reforms of the 1980s to achieve a significant and ever-increasing role in China's developing turn toward a market economy, which was not the state's intent.

Author : Nancy E Riley
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400755244
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, Work, and Family in a Chinese Economic Zone written by Nancy E Riley and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the dynamics of power within the families of married women who have migrated from rural areas to China's Dalian Economic Zone. Engaging the question of whether waged work gives women power in their families, this ethnographic study finds that women do indeed use their new positions and urban status to negotiate their family status. However, women use these new resources not necessarily to promote their own individual liberation, but rather to strengthen their contribution as wives and, especially, as mothers. Thus, this new modernity provides a space for the re-inscribing of traditional roles, even as it may work to give women new-found power within their families. How and why this process occurs is related to the dual inequalities these women face as rural migrants and as women.

Author : Tamara Jacka
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131746060X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rural Women in Urban China written by Tamara Jacka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on in-depth ethnographic research - and using an approach that seeks to understand how migration is experienced by the migrants themselves - this is a fascinating study of the experiences of women in rural China who joined the vast migration to Beijing and other cities at the end of the twentieth century. It focuses on the experiences of rural-urban migrants, the particular ways in which they talk about those experiences, and how those experiences affect their sense of identity. Through first-hand accounts of actual migrant workers, the author provides valuable insights into how rural women negotiate rural/urban experiences; how they respond to migration and life in the city; and how that experience shapes their world view, values, and relations with others. The book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the relationship between gender and social change, and of the ways in which globalization and modernity are experienced at the most personal level.

Author : Jing Song
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317425952
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Employment in Rural China written by Jing Song and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With China’s rapid advancements in urbanization and industrialization, there has been significant labor movement away from agriculture in the rural regions. Using four village case studies, Song examines how this restructuring process affects the rural population. Much of her research is centered on their various perceptions and reactions towards the market reforms. How are their lives reshaped through the employment transition? Along with the changes of family life and the diversification of development models, how do an individual’s gender and background play a role in determining employment? These are the broad questions that Song addresses through detailed analysis of four different villages, in light of China’s move towards decentralization of its rural economy.

Author : Elisabeth Croll
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Rural Development in China written by Elisabeth Croll and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How far will the current reforms in the Chinese countryside improve the position of peasant women? In this timely analysis, Elizabeth Croll examines China's new rural policies which have boosted agricultural production and radically altered its organisation. The inclusion in one book of an up-to-date analysis of rural developments in China and a detailed examination of the effects of rural development policies on women's production and reproduction between 1 949 and 1 978 provides the reader with a unique opportunity to study the implications of the collectivisation and decollectivisation of ag.

Author : Gail Hershatter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520950348
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gender of Memory written by Gail Hershatter and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-08-05 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group—rural women—at the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Interweaving these women’s life histories with insightful analysis, Hershatter shows how Party-state policy became local and personal, and how it affected women’s agricultural work, domestic routines, activism, marriage, childbirth, and parenting—even their notions of virtue and respectability. The women narrate their pasts from the vantage point of the present and highlight their enduring virtues, important achievements, and most deeply harbored grievances. In showing what memories can tell us about gender as an axis of power, difference, and collectivity in 1950s rural China and the present, Hershatter powerfully examines the nature of socialism and how gender figured in its creation.