The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past

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The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past (Asia Pacific Modern)

What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized groupâ€”rural womenâ€”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 womenâ€™s life histories with insightful analysis, Hershatter shows how Party-state policy became local and personal, and how it affected womenâ€™s agricultural work, domestic routines, activism, marriage, childbirth, and parentingâ€”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.

Country	USA
Author	Gail Hershatter
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9780520950344
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	University of California Press
Manufacturer	University of California Press
NumberOfPages	481
PublicationDate	2011-08-05
Publisher	University of California Press
ReleaseDate	2011-07-26
Studio	University of California Press

The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past (Asia Pacific Modern)