Год выпуска: 2012 Издательство: Страниц: 344 ISBN: 0415623359
Описание
Chinaa??s joining the World Trade Organization at the end of 2001 signifies a milestone in the countrya??s global integration after two decades of economic reforms that have fundamentally transformed the economic organization of China. This collection seeks to identify the gendered implications within China of the countrya??s transition from socialism to a market economy and its opening up to international trade and investment. The changes have created greater wealth for some, while at the same time, serious gender, class, ethnic, and regional disparities have also emerged. Drawing from historical, analytical, and policy-oriented work, the essays in this collection explore womena??s well-being relative to mena??s in rural and urban China by looking at land rights, labor-market status and labor rights, household decision-making, health, the representation of women in advertising and beauty pageants. This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal, Feminist...
