The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past Volume 8

What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group--rural women--at the center...
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Author: Gail Hershatter
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past Volume 8 by Hershatter, Gail

The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past Volume 8

€81,29

The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past Volume 8

€81,29
Author: Gail Hershatter
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Gail Hershatter
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 01/07/2014
Pages: 472
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.47lbs
Size: 9.07h x 6.11w x 1.23d
ISBN: 9780520282490

About the Author
Gail Hershatter is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of many books, including Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai and Women in China's Long Twentieth Century, both from UC Press.

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