Women, the family, and peasant revolution in China / Kay Ann Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Kay Ann.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Confucianism--China--History.

Confucianism.

Families--China--History.

Families.

Socialism--China--History.

Socialism.

Women peasants--China--History.

Women peasants.

China--Rural conditions.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 282 pages)

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1983.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 and feminist analysis, Johnson writes with clarity and discernment free of dogma. Her discussions of family reform ultimately provide insights into the Chinese government's concern with decreasing the national birth rate, which has become a top priority. Johnson's predictions of a coming crisis in population control are borne out by the recent increase in female infanticide and the government abortion campaign.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Women and the Traditional Chinese Family

2. The Twentieth-Century Family Crisis

3. Women and the Party: The Early Years, 1921-27

4. The Kiangsi Soviet Period, 1929-34

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

6. Legacies of the Revolutionary Era

7. The Politics of Family Reform

8. Land Reform and Women's Rights

9. The 1950 Marriage Law: Popular Resistance and Organizational Neglect

10. The 1953 Marriage Law Campaign

11. Collectivization and the Mobilization of Female Labor

12. The Cultural Revolution

13. The Anti-Confucian Campaign

14. Current Rural Practice

15. Conclusion: Family Reform-the Uncompleted Task

Appendix: The 1950 Marriage Law

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612069987

9781282069985

1282069985

9780226401942

0226401944

OCLC:

824153230