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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jacka, Tamara , 1965- (Author), Sargeson, Sally (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, U.K. : Edward Elgar , c2011
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Table of Contents:
  • 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