Women of China : economic and social transformation / edited by Jackie West ... [et al.] ; foreword by Elisabeth Croll.

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Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : New York : Palgrave Macmillan ; St. Martin's Press, 1999.
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Table of Contents:
  • State and economy in the making of women's lives: an introduction / Zhao Minghua and Jackie West
  • State-society relations and women's political participation / Wang Qi
  • Understanding changes in women's status in the context of the recent rural reform / Zhang Heather Xiaoquan
  • The role of women in labour migration: a case study in northern China / Song Lina
  • Divided gender, divided women: state policy and the labour market / Huang Xiyi
  • From weaving stars to bitter flowers: tradition, reform and their implications for women textile workers / Zhao Minghua
  • To have a son: the one-child family policy and economic change in rural China / Mu Aiping
  • 'Fat pigs' and women's gifts: agnatic and non-agnatic social support in Kaixiangong village / Chang Xiangqun
  • Rural privatisation and women's labour: property rights and gender concepts in Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang / Zhang Mei
  • Women and the public sphere: education, NGO affiliation and political participation / Shang Xiaoyuan
  • The development of women's studies: from the 1980s to the present / Min Dongchao.