Women and the Family in Chinese History
Title | Women and the Family in Chinese History PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Buckley Ebrey |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Total Pages | 310 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 9780415288231 |
This is a collection of essays by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, it explores features of the Chinese family, gender and kinship systems and places them in a historical context.
Women, the Family, and Peasant Revolution in China
Title | Women, the Family, and Peasant Revolution in China PDF eBook |
Author | Kay Ann Johnson |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 292 |
Release | 2009-02-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0226401944 |
Kay Ann Johnson provides much-needed information about women and gender equality under Communist leadership. She contends that, although the Chinese Communist Party has always ostensibly favored women's rights and family reform, it has rarely pushed for such reforms. In reality, its policies often have reinforced the traditional role of women to further the Party's predominant economic and military aims. Johnson's primary focus is on reforms of marriage and family because traditional marriage, family, and kinship practices have had the greatest influence in defining and shaping women's place in Chinese society. Conversant with current theory in political science, anthropology, and Marxist and feminist analysis, Johnson writes with clarity and discernment free of dogma. Her discussions of family reform ultimately provide insights into the Chinese government's concern with decreasing the national birth rate, which has become a top priority. Johnson's predictions of a coming crisis in population control are borne out by the recent increase in female infanticide and the government abortion campaign.
The Inner Quarters
Title | The Inner Quarters PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Buckley Ebrey |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 356 |
Release | 1993-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520081587 |
"Opening up questions about women's lives, about gender, about why we read history at all and how we write it, Patricia Buckley Ebrey has made The Inner Quarters a place we need to enter."—from the Foreword
The Talented Women of the Zhang Family
Title | The Talented Women of the Zhang Family PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Mann |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780520250895 |
"There is absolutely nothing remotely like this book in the history of late imperial women. [An] immensely important book."--Gail Hershatter, author of Women in China's Long Twentieth Century "A masterful work."--Lynn Hunt, coeditor of Beyond the Cultural Turn
Gender and Chinese History
Title | Gender and Chinese History PDF eBook |
Author | Beverly Jo Bossler |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | 279 |
Release | 2015-06-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 029580601X |
Until the 1980s, a common narrative about women in China had been one of victimization: women had dutifully endured a patriarchal civilization for thousands of years, living cloistered, uneducated lives separate from the larger social and cultural world, until they were liberated by political upheavals in the twentieth century. Rich scholarship on gender in China has since complicated the picture of women in Chinese society, revealing the roles women have played as active agents in their families, businesses, and artistic communities. The essays in this collection go further by assessing the ways in which the study of gender has changed our understanding of Chinese history and showing how the study of gender in China challenges our assumptions about China, the past, and gender itself.
Women, Family and the Chinese Socialist State, 1950-2010
Title | Women, Family and the Chinese Socialist State, 1950-2010 PDF eBook |
Author | Xiaofei Kang |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 321 |
Release | 2019-11-11 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9004415939 |
A rare window for the English speaking world to learn how scholars in China understand and interpret central issues pertaining to women and family from the founding of the People’s Republic to the reform era.
Chinese Women, Past & Present
Title | Chinese Women, Past & Present PDF eBook |
Author | Esther Shu-shin Lee Yao |
Publisher | Mesquite, Tex. : Ide House |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Social Science |
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