Women, the family, and peasant revolution in China /
Kay Ann Johnson provides much-needed information about women and gender equality under Communist leadership. She contends that, although the Chinese Communist Party has always ostensibly favored women's rights and family reform, it has rarely pushed for such reforms. In reality, its policies of...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1983.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Kay Ann Johnson provides much-needed information about women and gender equality under Communist leadership. She contends that, although the Chinese Communist Party has always ostensibly favored women's rights and family reform, it has rarely pushed for such reforms. In reality, its policies often have reinforced the traditional role of women to further the Party's predominant economic and military aims. Johnson's primary focus is on reforms of marriage and family because traditional marriage, family, and kinship practices have had the greatest influence in defining and shaping women's place i. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 282 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780226401942 0226401944 9780226401874 0226401871 0226401898 9780226401898 9786612069987 6612069988 |