Holding Up Half the Sky: Chinese Women Past, Present, and Future - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1558614656 ISBN 13: 9781558614659

Casa editrice: Feminist Pr, 2004

Riassunto

Mao Zedong's famous statement that "women hold up half the sky" marked a new recognition of Chinese women's contributions to their society—but only today is there a rich and extensive body of research by Chinese women about women in China.

Drawing together work by many of China's most distinguished women scholars, this collection presents twenty-one essays that address issues relating to women in the workplace, women's education, and women's role in marriage, family, and in cultural and political life. With statistics and accounts otherwise unavailable in the West, they reveal a feminist activism among China's women that is breathtaking both for the problems it confronts and for the spirit of the struggle it embodies.

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Recensione:

"An indispensable resource for anyone interested in China, in women, in international women's issues and in women and development. These studies subtly revise the standard perceptions of Chinese women as a historically subordinated class liberated by twentieth-century political movements and provide a richer dimension to our knowledge of Chinese women. The essays offer a trove of information, analyses, and interpretations that illuminate how women in China have 'held up half the sky'—and still do." —Shirley Geok-lin Lim, author of Among the White Moon Faces

"Holding Up Half The Sky is a must-read for anyone interested in new feminist scholarship by and about Chinese women today. Instructive and enlightening." —Judy Young, author of Unbound Feet

L'autore:

Tao Jie is a professor of English and deputy director of the Women's Studies Center at Peking University. Her publications include translations of the works by William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, and Alice Walker into Chinese.

Zheng Bijun is professor emerita of history and the former director of the Women's Studies Center at Peking University. An advisor to the Chinese Society for Women's Studies and former vice president of the Beijing Society for Women's Studies, she has published widely on women in Chinese history.

Shirley L. Mow has served as associate director of the Educational Partnership Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz; executive director of the Westchester Education Coalition; and associate dean of University College of Pace University.

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• Editore: Feminist Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1558614656
• ISBN 13: 9781558614659
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352
• Redattore: Jie Tao, Bijun Zheng, Mow Shirley L.