Chinese women, living and working / / edited by Anne E. McLaren

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (203 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.42/0951
• Soggetto topico: Women - China - Social conditions - 21st century; Women - China - Economic conditions - 21st century; Women - Employment - China; Sex role - China
• Altri autori: McLarenAnne E (Anne Elizabeth)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Series editor's foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I 'New' domains in the Chinese market economy; Part II Women in the professions; Part III Reinventing domestic space
• Sommario/riassunto: This book presents significant new findings on new domains of employment for women in China's burgeoning market economy of the 1990s and the twenty-first century. Experts in gender, politics, media studies, and anthropology discuss the impact of economic reform and globalization on Chinese women in family businesses, management, the professions, the prostitution industry and domestic service. Significant themes include changing marriage and consumer aspirations and the reinvention of domestic space. The volume offers fresh insights into changing definitions of 'women's work' in contemporary Ch
• Titolo autorizzato: Chinese women, living and working
• ISBN: 1-134-38349-5; 1-134-38350-9; 1-280-17554-0; 0-203-98723-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813123803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: ASAA women in Asia series.