Marriage, gender, and sex in a contemporary Chinese village /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ruan, Xinbang
Other Authors: Luo, Peilin, Ho, Yuk-ying, 1964-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2004]
Edition:English language ed.
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Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Theoretical framework: familism, women's liberation, and autonomy
  • Baixiu Village: past and present
  • Finding a partner, love, and marriage
  • Marriage, familism, and autonomy
  • The story of Uncle Qiu: the dictates of the parents, the words of the matchmaker
  • The story of Zhichao: the transition from tradition to modernity
  • The story of Wang Qiming: a marriage in the 1990s
  • Tradition, women, and the interpretation of the self
  • Women in Chinese villages: a review of the research
  • Wang Guizhen: growing up under the reform and opening-up policy
  • "A female's need for fulfillment" in the eyes of traditional women
  • Sex and the sex trade under the reform and opening-up policy
  • Familial culture, gender relationships, and sexual indulgence
  • Sex, the sex trade, and extramarital relationships in the eyes of men
  • Wealth, materialization, and the feminine viewpoint
  • The paradox of development in Baixiu Village
  • Reflections on methodology
  • Epilogue: Baixiu Village at the turn of the century
  • Baixiu Village at the beginning of the twenty-first century
  • Rural political reform: the Baixiu Village Committee election.