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The Gender of Memory - Rural Women and China's Collective Past (Hardcover, New)
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The Gender of Memory - Rural Women and China's Collective Past (Hardcover, New)
Series: Asia Pacific Modern, 8
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What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly
marginalized group - rural women - at the center of the inquiry? In
this book, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of
seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the
revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Interweaving these
women's life histories with insightful analysis, Hershatter shows
how Party-state policy became local and personal, and how it
affected women's agricultural work, domestic routines, activism,
marriage, childbirth, and parenting - even their notions of virtue
and respectability. The women narrate their pasts from the vantage
point of the present and highlight their enduring virtues,
important achievements, and most deeply harbored grievances. In
showing what memories can tell us about gender as an axis of power,
difference, and collectivity in 1950s rural China and the present,
Hershatter powerfully examines the nature of socialism and how
gender figured in its creation.
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