Revisiting Gender Inequality

Perspectives from the People’s Republic of China

Qi Wang, Min Dongchao (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2016 | 2016 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-57144-4 (ISBN)

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One of the widely acknowledged consequences of the economic reforms in China over the past four decades has been widened social-gender gap and hence increased gender inequalities. In recent years, there is a rising concern of inequality in China and a mounting intellectual reflection and critique of the growth-focused development path China has followed so far. This collection can be seen as a part of this critique, but the focus is on gender and various forms of inequality pertaining to gender and gender relations. The book shows how various gender inequality issues are approached and analysed in the location of China by Chinese gender/social science scholars and how studies of gender inequality constitutes an astute critique of the neo-liberal capitalist development in China. The book brings forth a distinctive gender perspective to the Chinese intellectual and political analysis of social inequality and a Chinese perspective to the bulks of international scholarship on gender inequality in China.

Qi Wang is Associate Professor of China Studies at the Department of Design and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark. She is the co-editor of Gender Equality, Citizenship and Human Rights: Controversies and Challenges in China and the Nordic Countries and Gender Politics in Asia: Women Manoeuvring within Dominant Gender Orders. Min Dongchao is Professor of Cultural Studies at Shanghai University, China. Bo Ærenlund Sørensen is a PhD student in the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford, UK.

Introduction
1. Gender (In)Equality and China's Economic Transition; Liu Bohong, Li Ling, and Yang Chunyu
2. 'Returning Home' or 'Being Returned Home'?; Song Shaopeng
3. Labor Markets, Gender, and Social Stratification; Tong Xin
4. Gender and Gendered Working Time Rights; Guo Huimin and Li Xiang
5. Urban New Poverty from a Gender Perspective; Jin Yihong
6. Son Preference and The Tradition of Patriarchy in Rural China; LI Huiying
7. The Everyday Lives and Media Representation of Rural Left-behind Women; Zhu Shanjie
8. Gender and Rural Crises in China's Transition Towards a Market Economy; Hu Yukun
9. Village Women's Participation in Local Public Affairs; Guo Xiajuan and Zhang Jing

Erscheinungsdatum	31.03.2016
Reihe/Serie	Comparative Feminist Studies
Reihe/Serie	Comparative Feminist Studies
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 232 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-349-57144-X / 134957144X
ISBN-13	978-1-349-57144-4 / 9781349571444
Zustand	Neuware