The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past
Gail Hershatter
Abstract
What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group—rural women—at the center of the inquiry? This book 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 analysis, the text 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 th ... More
Keywords: Chinese revolution, rural women, Shaanxi province, women's agricultural work, domestic routines, activism, marriage, childbirth, parenting, gender
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520267701 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520267701.001.0001 |
