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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245 0 0 |a Women, gender and rural development in China   |c edited by Tamara Jacka, Sally Sargeson 
260 |a Cheltenham, U.K. :   |b Edward Elgar ,   |c c2011 
300 |a xi, 271 p. :   |b ill., maps ;   |c 25 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-260) and index 
505 0 |a 1. Introduction : conceptualizing women, gender and rural development in China -- 2. Gender, citizenship and agency in land development -- 3. Labor, leisure, gender and generation : the generation : the organization of 'wan' and the notion of 'gender equality' in contemporary rural China -- 4. Taking the stage : rural Kam women and contemporary Kam 'cultural development' -- 5. Reproduction and real property in rural China : three decades of development and discrimination -- 6. 'Good citizens prefer daughters' : gender, rurality and the care for girls campaign -- 7. Challenging the gendered dimensions of schooling : the state, NGOs and transnational alliances -- 8. Developing Yunnan's rural and ethnic minority women : a development practitioner's self-reflections -- 9. Engendering the local : globalization, development and the 'empowerment' of Chinese rural women -- 10. Myths and realities : gender and participation in a donor-aided project in northern China 
520 |a "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 
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650 0 |a Rural women   |x Social conditions   |z China 
650 0 |a Sex role   |z China 
650 0 |a Women in rural development   |z China 
651 0 |a China   |x Rural conditions 
700 1 |a Jacka, Tamara ,   |d 1965- ,   |e author 
700 1 |a Sargeson, Sally ,   |e author 
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