Women's Work in Rural China: Change and Continuity in an Era of Reform (Cambridge Modern China Series)

Jacka, Tamara

ISBN 10: 0521599288 / ISBN 13: 9780521599283

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1997

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Good paperback, bumped/creased with shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Women's Work in Rural China: Change and Continuity in an Era of Reform (Cambridge Modern China Series)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521599288
• ISBN 13: 9780521599283
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Since 1978, reform policies introduced in rural China have had a profound impact on women's work and gender divisions of labor. This book provides detailed information on the shifts in women's work patterns that have occurred. It explains how and why these shifts have come about, and how they relate to other aspects of women's position in society. While other aspects of reform in rural China have been analyzed extensively, this is one of very few, and to date the most comprehensive, studies of the effects of reform on rural women.

Review

"This is a very valuable and also highly readable study. The implications of its findings are serious, because they presage a future society in which women will slip back further towards the low status they occupied in premodern Chinese society." Labour/Travail, Diana Leary, University of Britis Columbia