Gender of Memory Rural Women and China's Collective Past

Name: Gender of Memory Rural Women and China's Collective Past
Price: 24.6 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780520282490

ISBN-10: 0520282493

ISBN-13: 9780520282490

Edition: 2011

Authors: Gail Hershatter

List price: $34.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Sell

Get cash fast!

Buy new: $30.60

Marketplace

3 new & used from $24.60

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized grouprural womenat 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 parentingeven their notions of virtue and respectability. The women narrate their pasts from the vantage point of the present and highlight their enduring…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/7/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 472
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.716
Language: English