Women, gender and rural development in China

"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 lang...

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Main Authors: Jacka, Tamara , 1965- (Author), Sargeson, Sally (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, U.K. : Edward Elgar , c2011
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Summary:"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"--Publisher
Physical Description:xi, 271 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-260) and index
ISBN:1848446829 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781848446823 (hardback : alk. paper)