TY  - GEN
T1  - Revolution postponed : women in contemporary China
A1  - Wolf, Margery
LA  - English
PP  - Stanford, Calif.
PB  - Stanford University Press
YR  - 1985
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm47009544
AB  - The Communist revolution promised Chinese women an end to thousands of years of subjugation, an equality with men in all matters legal, political, social, and economic. This book examines the extent to which this promise has been kept. Based on nearly a year of field research and interviews with over 300 women in six widely separated rural and urban areas, it gives us a vivid picture of Chinese women today - their day-to-day lives, their views of the present, and their hopes for the future. To date nothing approximating equality has been achieved: in working conditions, in pay, in educational opportunity. In the cities, and to a lesser extent in the countryside, women are better off than in pre-revolutionary China. But nowhere except in the rhetoric of the regime are they equal to men. Nor does the immediate future look much brighter, given the continuing social constraints, the government's controversial family limitation program, and the nature of the new economic policies introduced in 1980. So far as possible, the women interviewed are allowed to speak for themselves. Some take refuge behind government slogans, some are shy or wary, but a surprising number are quick to give their own opinions despite an ever-present government cadre. These opinions, combined with the author's astute observations on their local and national context, add up to a wholly new perspective on an all too familiar problem.
OP  - 285
CN  - HQ1768 .W65 1985eb
SN  - 0585292752
SN  - 9780585292755
SN  - 0804712433
SN  - 9780804712439
SN  - 9780804765619
SN  - 0804765618
SN  - 0471314765
SN  - 0804713480
KW  - Women : China : Interviews.
KW  - Women : China : Social conditions.
KW  - Women : China : Economic conditions.
KW  - Equality.
KW  - Social sciences.
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Femmes : Chine : Entretiens.
KW  - Femmes : Chine : Conditions sociales.
KW  - Femmes : Chine : Conditions économiques.
KW  - Égalité (Sociologie)
KW  - Sciences sociales.
KW  - Livres numériques.
KW  - social sciences.
KW  - e-books.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Women's Studies.
KW  - Equality
KW  - Women
KW  - Women : Economic conditions
KW  - Women : Social conditions
KW  - China
KW  - Vrouwen.
KW  - Sociaal-economische situatie.
KW  - Sociale situatie.
KW  - Women.
KW  - Gender identity.
KW  - Gender.
KW  - Interviews
ER  -