Screen LibraryMarriage, gender, and sex in a contemporary Chinese village
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| Group Author: | ; |
| Published: |
M.E. Sharpe,
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| Publisher Address: | Armonk, N.Y. |
| Publication Dates: | c2004. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Item Description: | Hun yin, xing bie yu xing. |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 295 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0765612534 (alk. paper) 0765612542 |
| Index Number: | D669 |
| CLC: |
D669.1 D669.68 |
| Call Number: | D669.1/R894 |
| Contents: |
"An East gate book." Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-289) and index. Theoretical framework: familism, women's liberation, and autonomy -- Baixiao village: past and present -- Finding a partner, love, and marriage -- Marriage, familism, and autonomy -- The story of uncle Qiu: the dictates of the parents, the words of the matchmaker -- The story of Zhichao: the transition from tradition to modernity -- The story of Qiming: a marriage in the 1990s -- Tradition, women, and the interpretation of the self -- A review of the research into women in Chinese villages -- Wang Guizhen: growing up under the reform and opening-up policy -- "A female's need for fulfillment" in the eyes of traditional women -- Sex and sex trade under the reform and opening-up policy -- Familial culture, gender relationship, and sexual indulgence -- Sex, sex trade, and extra-marital relationship in the eyes of men -- Wealth, materialism, and the feminine viewpoint -- The paradox of the development in Baixiao village -- Reflections on methodology -- Revisit: Baixiao village at the turn of the century -- Baixiao village at the beginning of the twenty-first century -- Rural political reform: Baixiao village committee election. |