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Gender in Flux

Agency and its Limits in Contemporary China

Harriet Evans editor Julia C Strauss editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:16th Jun '11

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Based on recent research and insights from political activism, the volume explores changing manifestations and articulations of gender in China.

Based on recent multidisciplinary research and insights from political activism, Gender in Flux addresses gender as a main axis of social organization and cultural practice in China. Covering rural and urban centres, and different socio-economic groupings, the volume sheds light on changing manifestations and articulations of gender across different practices.Based on recent primary research in anthropology, sociology, history and politics, and on insights from political activism, Gender in Flux addresses gender as a main axis of social organization and cultural practice in China. Covering the impoverished rural 'sending' villages of western China to the big and wealthy Yangzi valley city of Nanjing, the far northeastern village of Huangbaiyu to the major urban centres of Tianjin and Beijing, it examines gendered practices and experiences in socio-economic, political and administrative configurations, family and household organization, education, employment and mobility, and generation. The volume addresses gendered expectations and practices as lived experience within and across different scales, challenging the standard social science division of urban, rural and migrant. Gender in Flux thus sheds important light on how the changing manifestations and articulations of gender across different practices confound any attempt at a uniform analysis.

ISBN: 9781107662384

Dimensions: 240mm x 155mm x 10mm

Weight: 280g

196 pages