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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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