The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past (Asia Pacific Modern)
by Gail Hershatter
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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 1950's and 1960's. 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 show more 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 1950's rural China and the present, Hershatter powerfully examines the nature of socialism and how gender figured in its creation. show lessTags
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Gail Hershatter is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her books include the Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past and Women in China's Long Twentieth Century.
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- Nonfiction, History, Sexuality and Gender Studies, Anthropology, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
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- 305.48 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Women Specific groups of women
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- HQ1769 .S433 .H47 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Women. Feminism
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