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Qi Wang - Revisiting Gender Inequality: Perspectives from the People´s Republic of China - 9781137520500 - V9781137520500
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Revisiting Gender Inequality: Perspectives from the People´s Republic of China

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Description for Revisiting Gender Inequality: Perspectives from the People´s Republic of China Hardback. Over the past four decades in China, economic reforms have resulted in widening social-gender gaps, leading to severe gender inequalities. Using empirical data and in-depth theoretical analysis to critique China's growth-focused development path, this collection of essays closes the gap on what has been an under-discussed issue in Chinese culture. Editor(s): Sorensen, Bo Aerenlund. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 440.
One of the widely acknowledged consequences of the economic reforms in China over the past four decades has been widened social-gender gap and hence increased gender inequalities. In recent years, there is a rising concern of inequality in China and a mounting intellectual reflection and critique of the growth-focused development path China has followed so far. This collection can be seen as a part of this critique, but the focus is on gender and various forms of inequality pertaining to gender and gender relations. The book shows how various gender inequality issues are approached and analysed in the location ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Comparative Feminist Studies
Condition
New
Weight
439g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137520500
SKU
V9781137520500
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Ref
99-15

About Qi Wang
Qi Wang is Associate Professor of China Studies at the Department of Design and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark. She is the co-editor of Gender Equality, Citizenship and Human Rights: Controversies and Challenges in China and the Nordic Countries and Gender Politics in Asia: Women Manoeuvring within Dominant Gender Orders. Min Dongchao is Professor ... Read more

Reviews for Revisiting Gender Inequality: Perspectives from the People´s Republic of China
Revisiting Gender Inequality provides access to some of the key voices in China's own vibrant community of women's and gender studies scholarship. It offers theory-inflected empirical critiques of the nature of Chinese development, demonstrating the emergence of various forms of gendered inequality within the 'China model,' and connecting these to aspects of neoliberalism, privatization, resistance, and agency. This is vital ... Read more

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