Revisiting Gender Inequality (eBook)

Perspectives from the People’s Republic of China

Qi Wang, Min Dongchao (Autoren)

Bo Ærenlund Sørensen (Herausgeber)

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2016
XIV, 232 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
9781137550804 (ISBN)

Infos

Over the past four decades in China, economic reforms have resulted in widening social-gender gaps, leading to severe gender inequalities. Using empirical data and in-depth theoretical analysis to critique China's growth-focused development path, this collection of essays closes the gap on what has been an under-discussed issue in Chinese culture.

Liu Bohong, China Women's University, China Li Ling, Peking University, China Yang Chunyu, Peking University, China Song Shaopeng, Renmin University, China Tong Xin, Peking University, China Guo Huimin, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Li Xiang, Leiden University, Netherlands Jin Yihong, Nanjing University, China Li Huiying, Central Party School of the Communist Party of China Zhu Shanjie, Shanghai University, China Hu Yukun, Peking University, China Guo Xiajuan, Zhejiang University, China Zhang Jing, Zhejiang University, China

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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.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

Introduction1. Gender (In)Equality and China's Economic Transition; Liu Bohong, Li Ling, and Yang Chunyu2. 'Returning Home' or 'Being Returned Home'?; Song Shaopeng3. Labor Markets, Gender, and Social Stratification; Tong Xin4. Gender and Gendered Working Time Rights; Guo Huimin and Li Xiang5. Urban New Poverty from a Gender Perspective; Jin Yihong6. Son Preference and The Tradition of Patriarchy in Rural China; LI Huiying7. The Everyday Lives and Media Representation of Rural Left-behind Women; Zhu Shanjie8. Gender and Rural Crises in China's Transition Towards a Market Economy; Hu Yukun9. Village Women's Participation in Local Public Affairs; Guo Xiajuan and Zhang Jing

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.4.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Comparative Feminist Studies
• Reihe/Serie: Comparative Feminist Studies
• Zusatzinfo: XIV, 232 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Asia • Asian culture • Culture • Feminism • Gender • media • Media Studies • Philosophy • Social Science • Sociology • Tradition • Women
• ISBN-13: 9781137550804 / 9781137550804