One of the widely acknowledged consequences of the economic reforms in China over the past four decades has been widened social-gender gap and hence increased gender inequalities. In recent years, there is a rising concern of inequality in China and a mounting intellectual reflection and critique of the growth-focused development path China has followed so far. This collection can be seen as a part of this critique, but the focus is on gender and various forms of inequality pertaining to gender and gender relations. The book shows how various gender inequality issues are approached and analysed in the location of China by Chinese gender/social science scholars and how studies of gender inequality constitutes an astute critique of the neo-liberal capitalist development in China. The book brings forth a distinctive gender perspective to the Chinese intellectual and political analysis of social inequality and a Chinese perspective to the bulks of international scholarship on gender inequality in China.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2016

ISBN

9781137550804

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Gender Studies

Index

Social Sciences

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Series Editor's Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
One Gender (In)Equality and China’s Economic Transition Liu Bohong, Li Ling, and Yang Chunyu
Two "Returning Home" or "Being Returned Home"?: The Debate over Women Returning to the Home and Changing Values
Three Labor Markets, Gender, and Social Stratification
Four Gender and Gendered Working Time Rights
Five Urban New Poverty from a Gender Perspective
Six Son Preference and the Tradition of Patriarchy in Rural China: An Empirical Investigation of the Sex Ratio Imbalance at Birth
Seven The Everyday Lives and Media Representation of Rural Left-Behind Women: A Study of Songzhuang in Southern Shandong Province
Eight Gender and Rural Crises in China’s Transition toward a Market Economy
Nine Village Women’s Participation in Local Public Affairs: Test Results from Democratic Consultative Meetings in Zhejiang
List of Contributors
Index