Gender in Flux: Agency and Its Limits in Contemporary China (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781107662384)

Based on recent primary research in anthropology, sociology, history and politics, and on insights from political activism, Gender in Flux addresses gender as a main axis of social organization and cultural practice in China. Covering the impoverished rural 'sending' villages of western China to the big and wealthy Yangzi valley city of Nanjing, the far northeastern village of Huangbaiyu to the major urban centres of Tianjin and Beijing, it examines gendered practices and experiences in socio-economic, political and administrative configurations, family and household organization, education, employment and mobility, and generation. The volume addresses gendered expectations and practices as lived experience within and across different scales, challenging the standard social science division of urban, rural and migrant. Gender in Flux thus sheds important light on how the changing manifestations and articulations of gender across different practices confound any attempt at a uniform analysis.

Author: Harriet Evans
ISBN-10: 1107662389
ISBN-13: 9781107662384
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/16/2011
Pages: 196
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 0.50d