Marriage, gender, and sex in a contemporary Chinese village /
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| Language: | English |
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Armonk, N.Y. :
M.E. Sharpe,
[2004]
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| Edition: | English language ed. |
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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.