Chinese women since Mao /

Chinese women since Mao / Elisabeth Croll.

"Chinese Women Since Mao is a timely contribution by the well-known writer on China, Elisabeth Croll. In it she examines the repercussions of China's new policies on the role and status of women in post-Mao China. In 1978, the Women's Federation held its long awaited Fourth National C...

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Main Author: Croll, Elisabeth, 1944-2007.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Armonk, N.Y. : Zed Books ; M.E. Sharpe, 1983.
Subjects:
Women > China > Social conditions.
Women > China > History > 20th century.
Women's rights > Government policy > China.
Women.
Gender identity.
Table of Contents:
  • The first thirty years. The strategy to end subordination ; Evaluating the strategy
  • A new era
  • Peasant women. The rural responsibility system ; Domestic sidelines ; The sexual division of labour
  • Urban working women. Co-operatives ; Individual enterprises ; Special economic zones ; Wage rates
  • Domestic labour and child care. Socialization and child care
  • Love, marriage and divorce. Marriage ; Freedom of divorce
  • A one-child family
  • Images of women
  • The politics of women's movement
  • Women and socialist modernization.

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