03576nam 2200805 a 450 991096526950332120240516075132.09786613278517978128327851512832785109780520950344052095034810.1525/9780520950344(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(Perlego)551029(MiU)MIU01100000000000000000778(EXLCZ)99255000000004003820101217d2011 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrThe gender of memory rural women and China's collective past /Gail Hershatter1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20111 online resource (481 p.)Asia Pacific modern ;8"A Philip E. Lilienthal book."9780520282490 0520282493 9780520267701 0520267702 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 ShengHistoryRural womenSocial conditions.Rural womenEconomic conditions.SocialismHistory.305.48/89510514309045Hershatter Gail649375MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910965269503321The gender of memory4430477UNINA