04340nam 2201057 a 450 991078121590332120230126204109.01-283-27851-097866132785170-520-95034-810.1525/9780520950344(CKB)2550000000040038(EBL)718660(SSID)ssj0000522819(PQKBManifestationID)11347561(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000522819(PQKBWorkID)10538581(PQKB)11737572(StDuBDS)EDZ0000056007(MiAaPQ)EBC718660(OCoLC)739107920(MdBmJHUP)muse30952(DE-B1597)519542(DE-B1597)9780520950344(Au-PeEL)EBL718660(CaPaEBR)ebr10480808(CaONFJC)MIL327851(dli)HEB33176(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000778(EXLCZ)99255000000004003820101217d2011 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrThe gender of memory[electronic resource] rural women and China's collective past /Gail HershatterBerkeley University of California Pressc20111 online resource (481 p.)Asia Pacific modern ;8"A Philip E. Lilienthal book."0-520-28249-3 0-520-26770-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frames -- No one is home -- Widow (or, the virtue of leadership) -- Activist -- Farmer -- Midwife -- Mother -- Model -- Laborer -- Narrator.What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group-rural women-at the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950's and 1960's. Interweaving these women's life histories with insightful analysis, Hershatter shows how Party-state policy became local and personal, and how it affected women's agricultural work, domestic routines, activism, marriage, childbirth, and parenting-even their notions of virtue and respectability. The women narrate their pasts from the vantage point of the present and highlight their enduring virtues, important achievements, and most deeply harbored grievances. In showing what memories can tell us about gender as an axis of power, difference, and collectivity in 1950's rural China and the present, Hershatter powerfully examines the nature of socialism and how gender figured in its creation.Asia Pacific modern ;8.Rural women and China's collective pastRural womenChinaShaanxi ShengSocial conditionsRural womenChinaShaanxi ShengEconomic conditionsSocialismChinaShaanxi ShengHistory1950s china.1960s china.20th century china.anthropology and women.asia pacific modern.asian history.asian studies.china books.chinese family life.chinese family roles.chinese gender roles.chinese revolution.chinese women history.chinese women.communist revolution.cultural anthropology.family.feminism and women.gender studies.history.inspirational women.international studies.parenting and marriage.revolution.revolutionary decades.womanhood.women in china.women in history.Rural womenSocial conditions.Rural womenEconomic conditions.SocialismHistory.305.48/89510514309045Hershatter Gail649375MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781215903321The gender of memory3757305UNINA