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Author:

Hershatter, Gail, author.

Title:

Women and China's revolutions / Gail Hershatter.

Publisher:

Rowman & Littlefield,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xx, 399 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Women--China--Social conditions--19th century.
Women--China--History--19th century.
Women--China--Social conditions--20th century.
Women--China--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-386) and index.

Contents:

The gendered labor of empire, 1800-1840 -- Disturbances, 1840-1900 -- Revolutionary currents, 1895-1912 -- Imagined futures, 1912-1927 -- Regulatory regimes, 1928-1937 -- Wartime women, 1928-1941 -- Wartime women, 1935-1949 -- The socialist construction of women, 1949-1978 -- Capitalized women, 1978-.

Summary:

"This groundbreaking book traces China's modern history though the lives of women, Gail Hershatter provides the first comprehensive introduction to the changes in Chinese women's lives--and in the shared social ideas about what women should do and be--over the past two centuries of profound change on the Chinese mainland"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Critical issues in world and international history

ISBN:

1442215682
9781442215689
1442215690
9781442215696

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1047569427

LCCN:

2018017979

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)