
Women's Work in Rural China
Change and Continuity in an Era of Reform
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- Author: Tamara Jacka, Murdoch University, Western Australia
- Date Published: February 1997
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521599283
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Since 1978, reform policies introduced in rural China have had a profound impact on women's work and gender divisions of labor. This book provides detailed information on the shifts in women's work patterns that have occurred. It explains how and why these shifts have come about, and how they relate to other aspects of women's position in society. While other aspects of reform in rural China have been analyzed extensively, this is one of very few, and to date the most comprehensive, studies of the effects of reform on rural women.
Read more- Combines thorough and up-to-date empirical information with rigorous theoretical analysis
- Develops an innovative theoretical approach, integrating material causes and consequences with an exploration of cultural values
- Makes a significant contribution to women's studies and to our knowledge of contemporary Chinese rural society, based on field work and interviews with women in Beijing, Shandong and Sichuan
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"This is a very valuable and also highly readable study. The implications of its findings are serious, because they presage a future society in which women will slip back further towards the low status they occupied in premodern Chinese society." Labour/Travail, Diana Leary, University of Britis Columbia
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- Date Published: February 1997
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521599283
- length: 276 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.41kg
- contains: 14 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Theoretical concerns
2. Historical background
3. Post-Mao reforms
4. The family
5. Education and politics
6. Domestic work
7. Agriculture
8. Entrpreneurs on the farm
9. Industry
10. Conclusion
Appendix 1: Summary of information on sample families
Appendix 2: Employment in sample township enterprises.
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