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Author: Gail Hershatter Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520950348 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 481
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What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group—rural women—at the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Interweaving these women’s life histories with insightful analysis, Hershatter shows how Party-state policy became local and personal, and how it affected women’s agricultural work, domestic routines, activism, marriage, childbirth, and parenting—even their notions of virtue and respectability. The women narrate their pasts from the vantage point of the present and highlight their enduring virtues, important achievements, and most deeply harbored grievances. In showing what memories can tell us about gender as an axis of power, difference, and collectivity in 1950s rural China and the present, Hershatter powerfully examines the nature of socialism and how gender figured in its creation.
Author: Gail Hershatter Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520950348 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 481
Book Description
What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group—rural women—at the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Interweaving these women’s life histories with insightful analysis, Hershatter shows how Party-state policy became local and personal, and how it affected women’s agricultural work, domestic routines, activism, marriage, childbirth, and parenting—even their notions of virtue and respectability. The women narrate their pasts from the vantage point of the present and highlight their enduring virtues, important achievements, and most deeply harbored grievances. In showing what memories can tell us about gender as an axis of power, difference, and collectivity in 1950s rural China and the present, Hershatter powerfully examines the nature of socialism and how gender figured in its creation.
Author: Tamara Jacka Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317460618 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 344
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Based on in-depth ethnographic research - and using an approach that seeks to understand how migration is experienced by the migrants themselves - this is a fascinating study of the experiences of women in rural China who joined the vast migration to Beijing and other cities at the end of the twentieth century. It focuses on the experiences of rural-urban migrants, the particular ways in which they talk about those experiences, and how those experiences affect their sense of identity. Through first-hand accounts of actual migrant workers, the author provides valuable insights into how rural women negotiate rural/urban experiences; how they respond to migration and life in the city; and how that experience shapes their world view, values, and relations with others. The book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the relationship between gender and social change, and of the ways in which globalization and modernity are experienced at the most personal level.
Author: Carolyn E Sachs Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429973438 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 332
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This book aims to expand feminist theory to include the study of rural women, while recognizing that many rural women no longer depend exclusively on agriculture or the land for their livelihoods. It emphasizes the depth and value of women's knowledge with the natural environment.
Author: Neil Websdale Publisher: SAGE ISBN: 9780761908524 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 300
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A training resource for anyone working with battered women, especially in rural areas, Rural Woman Battering and the Justice System is recommended for law enforcement and criminal justice professionals, practitioners, advocates, shelter personnel, and advanced students in related courses of study, as well as academics and researchers.
Author: Norton Juster Publisher: Viking ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 314
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This book brings to life the years between the end of the Civil War and the turn of the century by using a sampling of articles, letters, poems and essays written by and for rural women. It describes the daily life of country women and girls. While these writings reflected the labor and hardship that characterized the lives of most of the publications' readers; yet the editorial stance of these publications continued to idealize the vision of a farmer's wife.
Author: Deborah Fink Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 9780807843642 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 276
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Agrarian Women challenges the widely held assumption that frontier farm life in the United States made it easier for women to achieve rough equality with men. Using as her example the family farm in rural Nebraska from the 1880s until the eve of Wo
Author: Lori Ann McVay Publisher: CABI ISBN: 1780641605 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 157
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Rural women and leadership have, in recent years, come to be the focus of development initiatives in many countries. To date, however, much of the writing on this topic has focused heavily on obstacles rather than facilitative factors in women?s attainment of leadership positions. Citing examples from a case study in Northern Ireland, this book gives voice to the many vital, positive elements in rural women?s leadership development.
Author: Walter S. DeKeseredy Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000244717 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 111
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This book chronicles key contemporary developments in the social scientific study of various types of male-to-female abuse in rural places and suggests new directions in research, theory, and policy. The main objective of this book is not to simply provide a dry recitation of the extant literature on the abuse of rural women in private places. To be sure, this material is covered, but rural women’s experiences of crimes of the powerful like genocidal rape and corporate violence against female employees are also examined. Written by a celebrated expert on the subject, this book considers woman abuse in a broad context, covering forms of violence such as physical and sexual assault, coercive control genocidal rape, abortion bans, forced pregnancy, and corporate forms of violence. It offers a broad research agenda, that examines the multidimensional nature of violence against rural women. Drawing on decades of work in the shelter movement, with activist organizations, and doing government research, DeKeseredy punctuates the book with stories and voices of perpetrators and survivors of abuse. Additionally, what makes this book unique is that it focuses on the plight of rural women around the world and it introduces a modified version of Liz Kelly’s original continuum of sexual violence. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, women’s studies, cultural studies, policing, geography and all those interested in learning about the abuse women face in rural areas. Walter S. DeKeseredy is Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences, Director of the Research Center on Violence, and Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University. He has published 26 books, over 100 refereed journal articles, and 90 scholarly book chapters on issues such as woman abuse, rural criminology, and criminological theory.
Author: Dr. Abhishek Mukherjee Publisher: Notion Press ISBN: 1639046488 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 148
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Rural Women: The Untapped Potential is a book focused on budding entrepreneurs, management students, commerce students and management professionals who are inclined towards entrepreneurship and planning to have their own startups in the near future. This book is an effort to exhume the hidden potential which exists in rural women of India and with special emphasis on Maharashtra. This book reveals the various employment avenues extant in the rural areas which if tapped and used optimally can do wonders. The book covers various chapters like job vs. business, entrepreneurial mindset, entrepreneurial environment, self-employment avenues – sectors of employment, skill analysis, hand holding, training requirements and avenues, self-analysis, legal procedures involved in establishing one’s own startup, how to raise funds, etc. Thus, this book tries to cover all the areas which are required to be tapped so that the women, especially, the rural women can be made ‘Atma Nirbhar’ (self-dependent). This book includes various live examples of rural women entrepreneurship and also brings to light what steps rural women should take to generate self-employment. Key Features • It covers all the areas which have to be taken into consideration when planning for a new startup. • The language used in this book is quite lucid which makes it very easy to understand the concepts and examples for the reader. • Explores the gap existing in the system because of which there are lots of hurdles and impediments in the way of entrepreneurship. • Explores the various sectors where self-employment can be taken up, which will not only uplift the villages but also will make them self-reliant and will add to the progress of the country.
Author: Gail Hershatter
Author: Gail Hershatter
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Author: Deborah Fink
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Author: Dr. Abhishek Mukherjee