Revisiting Gender Inequality

Qi Wang

ISBN 10: 1137520507 / ISBN 13: 9781137520500

Published by Palgrave Macmillan US, Palgrave Macmillan US Jan 2016, 2016

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Neuware -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 of China by Chinese gender/social science scholars and how studies of gender inequality constitutes an astute critique of the neo-liberal capitalist development in China. The book brings forth a distinctive gender perspective to the Chinese intellectual and political analysis of social inequality and a Chinese perspective to the bulks of international scholarship on gender inequality in China.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 248 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Revisiting Gender Inequality
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US, Palgrave Macmillan US Jan 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1137520507
• ISBN 13: 9781137520500
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 222W x 145H x 19D millimeters 222 millimeters width by 145 millimeters height by 19 millimeters depth
• Weight: 450 grams

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Synopsis

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 of China by Chinese gender/social science scholars and how studies of gender inequality constitutes an astute critique of the neo-liberal capitalist development in China. The book brings forth a distinctive gender perspective to the Chinese intellectual and political analysis of social inequality and a Chinese perspective to the bulks of international scholarship on gender inequality in China.

About the Author

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 of Cultural Studies at Shanghai University, China.
 
Bo Ærenlund Sørensen is a PhD student in the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford, UK.