Overview
- Examines, both diachronically and synchronically, the social transformations of contemporary rural China from a gender perspective, covering a history of over 80 years and the lives of three generations
- Highlights the disparate experiences and power relations, including interdependency and inequality, among women
- Focuses not only on rural Chinese women’s ‘labour’ but also on ‘leisure,’ which has received little academic attention, and explores ‘labour’ and ‘leisure’ from a holistic and interrelational perspective, disrupting the remunerated/unremunerated, home/labour, within/outside household, and labour /leisure dichotomies
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Gendered Organisation of Labour and Leisure in the Pre-collective Era (1926–1956)
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Gendered Organisation of Labour and Leisure in the Collective Era (1956–1983)
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Gendered Organisation of Labour and Leisure in the Reform Era (1983–2013)
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Political Participation in a Rural Society in Transition (1944–2013)
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About this book
The book develops a ‘double comparison’ analytical framework to compare the organisation of labour and leisure in the three respective generations, proceeding, on the one hand, diachronically along the historical time, that is, the pre-collective era, collective era and reform era, and synchronically along the women’s life stages on the other. In so doing, the book links women’s shifting role in changing family/household forms with broader socio-economic, political, demographic and cultural changes. Moreover, it employs a holistic perspective to reflect changing patterns in women’s labour and leisure by disrupting the remunerated/unremunerated, home/labour, within/outside household and labour/leisure dichotomies, and exploring the interrelations between them.
Based on this, the book then identifies the determinants of rural women’s labour and leisure and reveals the women’s experiences of their changing identities, particularly concerning their relationships with their parents (-in-law), sisters (-in-law), husbands and children. Particularly highlighting the interdependence and inequality among women, it also reveals their own perception of their identities and relationships, and their understanding of husband–wife fairness and gender equality. Lastly, it demonstrates that the prevalent androcentrism in the remote world does not match the increasing husband–wife fairness in the local world and argues that this mismatch has caused the complex and paradoxical experiences and subjectivities of these women.
Given its scope, the book is of interest to scholars, students and researchers in the fields of sociology, anthropology, gender and development, as well as a general audience looking to explore contemporary rural China.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transforming the Gendered Organisation of Labour and Leisure
Book Subtitle: Women, Labour, Leisure and Family in Lianhe Village, Central China, 1926–2013
Authors: Yuqin Huang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6438-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: East China University of Science and Technology Press Co., Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-6437-6Published: 29 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-6440-6Published: 29 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-6438-3Published: 28 August 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 233
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Gender Studies, Sociology of Work, Development and Social Change