Gender and Power in Rural North China: Friendship Between the Sexes in English Writing from Mill to Woolf - Hardcover

Judd, Ellen R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804722951 ISBN 13: 9780804722957

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1994

Synopsis

This book explores the link between the everyday relations of gender and the reform of the rural political economy in the 1980's, and argues that the reconstitution of the Chinese state in the reform era draws force and authority from the inherent politics and power of gender.

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About the Author

Ellen R. Judd is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Manitoba.

From the Back Cover

"For Judd, the question of how we are to think about Chinese gender is answered by situating women's productive and reproductive work in the complex force-field generated by a changing political economy. To do this requires the theoretically informed, locally detailed, and comparative attention to observable human beings that Judd gives us here. This extraordinary book is a new classic in China studies and gender analysis."--American Anthropologist

Edition details

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804722951
• ISBN 13: 9780804722957
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312