ISBN:
9781848446823
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 271 p)
,
ill., maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Women, Gender and Rural Development in China
DDC:
305.40951
Keywords:
Rural women
;
Women in rural development
Abstract:
China's countryside is being transformed by rapid, far-reaching development. This wide-reaching and multidisciplinary book questions whether gender politics are changing in response to this development, and explores how gender politics inform and are reproduced or reconfigured in the languages, knowledge, processes and practices of development in rural China. The contributors - prominent scholars in the fields of political science, sociology, gender, development and Chinese studies - argue that although gender has been elided in recent development policies, women have been singled out as a 'vu
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: conceptualizing women, gender and rural development in China; PART I Women shaping development; 1. Gender, citizenship and agency in land development; 2. Labour, leisure, gender and generation: the organization of 'wan' and the notion of 'gender equality' in contemporary rural China; 3. Taking the stage: rural Kam women and contemporary Kam 'cultural development'; PART II Tangled ties: policies, institutions and discourses
Description / Table of Contents:
4. Reproduction and real property in rural China: three decades of development and discrimination5. 'Good citizens prefer daughters': gender, rurality and the Care for Girls Campaign; 6. Challenging the gendered dimensions of schooling: the state, NGOs and transnational alliances; PART III The global, the local and the project; 7. Developing Yunnan's rural and ethnic minority women: a development practitioner's self-reflections; 8. Engendering the local: globalization, development and the 'empowerment' of Chinese rural women
Description / Table of Contents:
9. Myths and realities: gender and participation in a donor-aided project in northern ChinaReferences; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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