Women, the Family, and Peasant Revolution in China

Name: Women, the Family, and Peasant Revolution in China
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ISBN: 9780226401898

ISBN-10: 0226401898

ISBN-13: 9780226401898

Edition: 1983

Authors: Kay Ann Johnson

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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 in Chinese society. Conversant with current theory in political science, anthropology, and Marxist…

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List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1983
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/15/1985
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.89" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Prerevolutionary Setting



Women and the Traditional Chinese Family



The Twentieth-Century Family Crisis



Women and the Family in the Chinese Revolution, 1921-49



The Kiangsi Soviet Period, 1929-34



The Yenan Experience and the Final Civil War, 1936-49



Legacies of the Revolutionary Era 3. Family Reform in the People's Republic, 1950-53



The Politics of Family Reform



Land Reform and Women's Rights



The 1950 Marriage Law: Popular Resistance and Organizational Neglect



The 1953 Marriage Law Campaign 4. Women, the Family and the Chinese Road to Socialism, 1955-80



Collectivization and the Mobilization of Female Labor



The Cultural Revolution



The Anti-Confucian Campaign



Current Rural Practice



Conclusion: Family Reform—the Uncompleted Task


Appendix: The 1950 Marriage Law


Notes


Index