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Record Nr.

UNINA9910253348403321

Autore

Wang Qi

Titolo

Revisiting Gender Inequality [[electronic resource] ] : Perspectives from the People’s Republic of China / / by Qi Wang, Min Dongchao ; edited by Bo Ærenlund Sørensen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-55080-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 232 p.)

Collana

Comparative Feminist Studies, , 2752-3209

Disciplina

305.30951

Soggetti

Sociology

Feminist theory

Ethnology—Asia

Communication

Popular culture - Study and teaching

Gender Studies

Feminism

Asian Culture

Media Studies

Cultural Studies

China Social conditions 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Series editor's foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Gender (in)equality and China's economic transition / Liu Bohong, Li Ling, and Yang Chunyu -- "Returning home" or "being returned home"? / Song Shaopeng -- Labor markets, gender, and social stratification / Tong Xin -- Gender and gendered working time rights / Guo Huimin and Li Xiang -- Urban new poverty from a gender perspective / Jin Yihong -- Son preference and the tradition of patriarchy in rural China / LI Huiying -- The everyday lives and media representation of rural left-behind women / Zhu Shanjie -- Gender and rural crises in China's transition towards a market economy / Hu Yukun -- Village women's



participation in local public affairs / Guo Xiajuan and Zhang Jing -- Contributor bios -- .

Sommario/riassunto

One of the widely acknowledged consequences of the economic reforms in China over the past four decades has been widened social-gender gap and hence increased gender inequalities. In recent years, there is a rising concern of inequality in China and a mounting intellectual reflection and critique of the growth-focused development path China has followed so far. This collection can be seen as a part of this critique, but the focus is on gender and various forms of inequality pertaining to gender and gender relations. The book shows how various gender inequality issues are approached and analysed in the location of China by Chinese gender/social science scholars and how studies of gender inequality constitutes an astute critique of the neo-liberal capitalist development in China. The book brings forth a distinctive gender perspective to the Chinese intellectual and political analysis of social inequality and a Chinese perspective to the bulks of international scholarship on gender inequality in China.