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The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China´s Collective Past
Gail Hershatter
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Description for The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China´s Collective Past
Paperback. Series: Asia Pacific Modern. Num Pages: 480 pages, 8 black & white photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 666.
What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group--rural women--at the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Interweaving these women's life histories with insightful analysis, Hershatter shows how Party-state policy became local and personal, and how it affected women's agricultural work, domestic routines, activism, marriage, childbirth, and parenting--even their notions of virtue and respectability. The women narrate their pasts from the vantage point of the present and highlight their enduring ... Read more
What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group--rural women--at the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Interweaving these women's life histories with insightful analysis, Hershatter shows how Party-state policy became local and personal, and how it affected women's agricultural work, domestic routines, activism, marriage, childbirth, and parenting--even their notions of virtue and respectability. The women narrate their pasts from the vantage point of the present and highlight their enduring ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
Series
Asia Pacific Modern
Number of Pages
472
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520282490
SKU
V9780520282490
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About Gail Hershatter
Gail Hershatter is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of many books, including Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai and Women in China's Long Twentieth Century, both from UC Press.
Reviews for The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China´s Collective Past
“A landmark in women’s history and the history of China.”
James C. Scott
London Review Of Books
“Remarkable. . . . Hershatter has a complicated story to tell about women’s experiences in mid-twentieth-century China.”
Ms Magazine
“If you want to be reminded of how moving history can be, then read this book.”
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James C. Scott
London Review Of Books
“Remarkable. . . . Hershatter has a complicated story to tell about women’s experiences in mid-twentieth-century China.”
Ms Magazine
“If you want to be reminded of how moving history can be, then read this book.”
New Books ... Read more