Transforming the Gendered Organisation of Labour and Leisure : Women, Labour,...

by Yuqin Huang

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Transforming the Gendered Organisation of Labour and Leisure : Women, Labour, Leisure and Family in Lianhe Village, Central China, 1, Paperback by Huang, Yuqin, ISBN 981156440X, ISBN-13 9789811564406, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This book explores how the labour and leisure lives of people in contemporary rural China have been structured and transformed, discussing the changing dynamics of power relations both between and within genders, and in local (village and family/household) and remote (the state and market) contexts. It combines perspectives from sociology, gender studies, social history and demography to investigate the changes and continuities in the lives of women and men in Lianhe, a rural village in central China, examining the period from 1926 to 2013 through the lens of labour and leisure. Employing methods from the field of ethnography, the research focuses on the life stories of three generations, including 57 women in Lianhe. Th develops a 'double comparison’ analytical framework to compare the organisation of labour and leisure in the three respective generations, proceeding, on the one hand, diachronically along the historical time, that is, the pre-collective era, collective era and reform era, and synchronically along the women’s life stages on the other. In so doing, th links women’s shifting role in changing family/household forms with broader socio-economic, political, demographic and cultural changes. Moreover, it employs a holistic perspec

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2021
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9789811564406
• Condition: Fine

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