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The gender of memory : rural women and China's collective past / Gail Hershatter.
LIBRA HQ1769.S433 H47 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hershatter, Gail, author.
- Series:
- Asia Pacific modern ; 8.
- Asia Pacific modern ; 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rural women--China--Shaanxi Sheng--Social conditions.
- Rural women.
- Rural women--China--Shaanxi Sheng--Economic conditions.
- Socialism--China--Shaanxi Sheng.
- Socialism.
- Rural women--Economic conditions.
- Rural women--Social conditions.
- Economic conditions.
- Social conditions.
- China--Shaanxi Sheng.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 455 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group-rural women-at 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 parenting-even their notions of virtue and respectability. The women-narrate their-pasts from the vantage point of the present and highlight their enduring virtues, important achievements, and most deeply harbored grievances. In showing what memories can tell us about gender as an axis of power, difference, and collectivity in 1950s rural China and. the present, Hershatter powerfully examines the nature of socialism and how gender, figured in its creation. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Frames 13
- 2 No One Is Home 32
- 3 Widow (or, the Virtue of Leadership) 65
- 4 Activist 96
- 5 Farmer 129
- 6 Midwife 154
- 7 Mother 182
- 8 Model 210
- 9 Laborer 236
- 10 Narrator 267.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-441) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520282490
- 0520282493
- OCLC:
- 881366793
- Publisher Number:
- 99969145873
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