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Women, Gender and Rural Development in China /

"China's countryside is being transformed by rapid, far-reaching development. This wide-reaching and multidisciplinary book questions whether gender politics are changing in response to this development, and explores how gender politics inform and are reproduced or reconfigured in the lang...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Jacka, Tamara, 1965-, Sargeson, Sally
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar, [2011]
Subjects:
Rural women > China > Social conditions.
Rural women > China > Economic conditions.
Women in rural development > China.
Sex role > China.
China > Rural conditions.
Rural conditions.
Rural women > Economic conditions.
Rural women > Social conditions.
Sex role.
Women in rural development.
China.
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Summary:"China's countryside is being transformed by rapid, far-reaching development. This wide-reaching and multidisciplinary book questions whether gender politics are changing in response to this development, and explores how gender politics inform and are reproduced or reconfigured in the languages, knowledge, processes and practices of development in rural China"--Publisher.
Physical Description:xi, 271 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-260) and index.
ISBN:9781848446823 (cased)
1848446829 (cased)