Women and gender in twentieth-century China
By: Paul J. Bailey
Series: Gender and history; Gender & history (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Basingstoke, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780230577770
Subjects: Social conditions; Women; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-194) and index.
Table of contents: title: Women in pre-twentieth century China; title: Reform, nationalism and the 'woman question' (1897-1912); title: Gender discourses in the early Republic; title: 'A world turned upside down': mobilising women for the revolution; title: women in the city and countryside before 1949; title: The new Communist state and marriage reform in the 1950's: 'public patriarchy' in practice?; title: 'Women hold up half the sky': the Great Leap Forward and the cultural revolution; title: Women and socio-economic change in the post-Mao era; title: Conclusion.