The Gender of Memory - Rural Women and China's Collective Past (Paperback)

What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized groupOCorural womenOCoat 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 womenOCOs life histories with insightful analysis, Hershatter shows how Party-state policy became local and personal, and how it affected womenOCOs agricultural work, domestic routines, activism, marriage, childbirth, and parentingOCoeven 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."

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Asia Pacific Modern, 8
Release date:	2014
First published:	2011
Authors:	Gail Hershatter
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	472
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-28249-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-520-28249-3
Barcode:	9780520282490

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