Women, gender and rural development in China/ edited by Tamara Jacka, Sally Sargeson, Australian National University. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, [2012?] - xi, 271 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-260) and index.

Introduction : conceptualizing women, gender and rural development in China / Tamara Jacka and Sally Sargeson -- Gender, citizenship and agency in land development / Sally Sargeson and Song Yu -- Labour, leisure, gender and generation : the organization of 'wan' and the notion of 'gender equality' in contemporary rural China / Yuqin Huang -- Taking the stage : rural Kam women and contemporary Kam 'cultural development' / Catherine Ingram, with Wu Jialing, Wu Meifang, Wu Meixiang, Wu Pinxian and Wu Xuegui (Kam singers and song experts) -- Reproduction and real property in rural China : three decades of development and discrimination / Laurel Bossen -- 'Good citizens prefer daughters' : gender, rurality and the Care for Girls campaign / Lisa Eklund -- Challenging the gendered dimensions of schooling : the state, NGOs and transnational alliances / Heidi Ross -- Developing Yunnan's rural and ethnic minority women : a development practitioner's self-reflections / Zhao Jie -- Engendering the local : globalization, development and the 'empowerment' of Chinese rural women / Sharon R. Wesoky -- Myths and realities : gender and participation in a donor-aided project in northern China / Yang Lichao.

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Rural women--Social conditions.--China
Rural women--Economic conditions.--China
Women in rural development--China.
Sex role--China.


China--Rural conditions.

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