Women and China's revolutions

Women and China's revolutions / Gail Hershatter.

"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 pr...

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Main Author: Hershatter, Gail (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2019]
Series:Critical issues in world and international history.
Subjects:
Women > China > Social conditions > 19th century.
Women > China > History > 19th century.
Women > China > Social conditions > 20th century.
Women > China > History > 20th century.
History.
Table of 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-

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