The incompatibility of rights : gender essentialism, market primacy, and women's work-family struggles in an autocracy / Yun Zhou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhou, Yun, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in gender and politics 2753-8117

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's rights--China.

Women's rights.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"Why do self-described gender egalitarians support the state's draconian birth restriction? Following China's universal relaxation of its one-child policy in 2016, this Element excavates an under-theorized and distinctly political dimension of the gendered work-family conflict: the incompatibility of rights. I demonstrate that young urban Chinese women have experienced the expansion of their civil right to mother-through birth quota relaxation-as intensifying labor market gender discriminations and undermining their civil right to equal employment. To cope, these women turned to various individualistic strategies of rights-trading, such as promising to limit childbearing when seeking to secure employment. In this process, young Chinese women have further come to perceive employment and motherhood as two incompatible moral claims of entitlement. This Element highlights how women's quotidian work-family encounters present a fruitful yet underexplored site for understanding their political ideations and citizenship struggles. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Theorizing the gendered incompatibility of rights

Studying employment and motherhood in authoritarian China

Between Scylla and Charybdis

Making rights incompatible

The political implications of navigating rights at odds

Bringing the state back in; bringing work–family back in.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed June 1, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version : Zhou, Yun. incompatibility of rights.

ISBN:

9781009658089

1009658085

OCLC:

1589181800

Publisher Number:

CIPO000381771

Access Restriction:

Some versions Open access versions available from some providers open access