ISBN:
9781780329239
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (224 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Series Statement:
Asian Arguments
Parallel Title:
Print version Hong Fincher, Leta Leftover Women : The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China
DDC:
305.40951
Keywords:
Cognitive psychology
;
Gender indentity
;
Social stability
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Contrary to many claims made in the media, women in China have experienced a dramatic rollback of rights and gains relative to men. Leftover Women lays out the structural discrimination against women and speaks to broader problems with China's economy, politics, and development
Abstract:
Intro -- Asian Arguments -- About the Author -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Introduction -- 1 China's "leftover" women -- How the state stigmatizes single educated women in their late twenties -- Marriage, social stability and upgrading "population quality" -- Dismantling women's gains of the past -- 2 How Chinese women were shut out of the biggest accumulation of real-estate wealth in history -- Homes worth US30 trillion, most registered in men's names -- "He's going to be the landlord and I'll pay him rent" -- "I have been cast aside by the law" -- 3 China's giant gender wealth gap -- The hukou system -- Why parents tend to buy homes for sons but not daughters -- How state promotion of marriage and new households fuels real-estate mania -- Why real-estate wealth is more important than income for Chinese women -- 4 Back to the Ming dynasty -- The golden age for women's property rights: 1,000 years ago? -- Women's "liberation" in the Republican and Communist revolutions -- Marriage and the erosion of women's property rights in the post-Mao era -- 5 Wives caught in China's web of abuse -- "Don't expose family ugliness" -- "The system is designed to make you give up" -- "Why should I give her a divorce? We're family" -- 6 Fighting back -- Women's resistance in the authoritarian state -- Gender and LGBTQ activism -- The future of women's rights in China -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- Asian Arguments published titles
