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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454494003321

Autore

Hershatter Gail

Titolo

Women in China's long twentieth century [[electronic resource] /] / Gail Hershatter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, Calif., : Global, Area, and International Archive, University of California, : University of California Press, c2007

ISBN

1-281-38544-1

9786611385446

0-520-91612-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (171 p.)

Collana

Global, Area, and International Archive

Disciplina

305.409510904

305.420951

Soggetti

Feminism - China

Sex role - China

Women and communism - China

Women - Employment - China

Women - China - Social conditions - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Marriage, Family, Sexuality, and Gender Difference -- 2. Labor -- 3. National Modernity -- Afterthoughts -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This indispensable guide for students of both Chinese and women's history synthesizes recent research on women in twentieth-century China. Written by a leading historian of China, it surveys more than 650 scholarly works, discussing Chinese women in the context of marriage, family, sexuality, labor, and national modernity. In the process, Hershatter offers keen analytic insights and judgments about the works themselves and the evolution of related academic fields. The result is both a practical bibliographic tool and a thoughtful reflection on how we approach the past.