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Women and China's Revolutions

  • ISBN-13: 9781442215689
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
  • By Gail Hershatter
  • Price: AUD $244.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/01/2019
  • Format: Hardback 424 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Asian history [HBJF]
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If we place women at the center of our account of China's last two centuries, how does this change our understanding of what happened? This deeply knowledgeable book illuminates the places where the Big History of recognizable events intersects with the daily lives of ordinary people, using gender as its analytic lens. Leading scholar Gail Hershatter asks how these events affected women in particular, and how women affected the course of these events. For instance, did women have a 1911 revolution? A socialist revolution? If so, what did those revolutions look like? Which women had them? Hershatter uses two key themes to frame her analysis. The first is the importance of women's visible and invisible labor. The labor of women in domestic and public spaces shaped China's move from empire to republic to socialist nation to rising capitalist power. The second is the symbolic work performed by gender itself. What women should do and be was a constant topic of debate during China's transformation from empire to weak state to partially occupied territory to nascent socialist republic to reform-era powerhouse. What sorts of concerns did people express through the language of gender? How did that language work, and why was it so powerful? Drawing on decades of Hershatter's groundbreaking scholarship and mastery of a range of literatures, this beautifully written book will be essential reading for all students of China's modern history.
List of Photos Acknowledgments Introduction 1 The Gendered Labor of Empire, 1800-1840 2 Disturbances, 1840-1900 3 Revolutionary Currents, 1895-1912 4 Imagined Futures, 1912-27 5 Regulatory Regimes, 1928-37 6 Wartime Women, 1928-41 7 Wartime Women, 1935-49 8 The Socialist Construction of Women, 1949-78 9 Capitalized Women, 1978- Glossary Notes Works Cited Index About the Author
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