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Author Hershatter, Gail, author.

Title The gender of memory : rural women and China's collective past / Gail Hershatter.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 455 pages) : maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Asia Pacific modern ; 8
Asia Pacific modern ; 8.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-441) and index.
Contents Frames -- No one is home -- Widow (or, the virtue of leadership) -- Activist -- Farmer -- Midwife -- Mother -- Model -- Laborer -- Narrator.
Summary 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.
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Subject Rural women -- China -- Shaanxi Sheng -- Social conditions.
Rural women.
China -- Shaanxi Sheng.
Social conditions.
Rural women -- China -- Shaanxi Sheng -- Economic conditions.
Economic conditions.
Socialism -- China -- Shaanxi Sheng.
Socialism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books -- History.
Electronic books -- History.
Other Form: Print version: Hershatter, Gail. Gender of memory. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011 9780520267701 (DLC) 2010052235 (OCoLC)694172165
ISBN 9780520950344 (electronic book)
0520950348 (electronic book)
1283278510
9781283278515
9780520267701
0520267702