Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/KO7t3S Gender and Work in Urban China Women Workers of the Unlucky Generation By: Jieyu Liu Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9780415689922, 0415689929 eText ISBN: 9781134164745, 1134164742 Edition: 1st Pages: 192 Copyright year: 2007 Format: EPUB Available from $ 23.98 USD SKU 9781134164745R90 Although it is generally believed in China that socialism raised women’s status and paid work liberated them from the shackles of patriarchy, the economic reforms of the last two decades of the twentieth century meant women workers were more vulnerable to losing their jobs than men. Unlike previous studies, which have focused on the macro-structural features of this process, this book makes the voices of ordinary women workers heard and applies feminist perspectives on women and work to the Chinese situation. Drawing upon extensive life history interviews, this book contests the view that mobilizing women into the workplace brought about their liberation. Instead, the gendered redundancy they experienced was the culmination of a lifetime’s experiences of gender inequalities. Setting their life stories against a backdrop of great social-political upheaval in China, the book suggests that the women of this ‘unlucky generation’ have borne the brunt of sufferings caused by sacrifices they made for the development of socialist China. Additional ISBNs 9781280757433, 9780415392112, 1280757434, 041539211X
