Leftover Women
eBook - ePub

Leftover Women

The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, 10th Anniversary Edition

  1. 280 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Leftover Women

The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, 10th Anniversary Edition

About this book

A China Books Review Best China Book of 2023 Leta Hong Fincher's landmark book Leftover Women shone a light on the resurgence of gender inequality in 21st-century China. Ten years on, women in China continue to experience a dramatic rolling back of rights and gains in the increasingly patriarchal political climate of the Xi Jinping era. Leftover Women explores the structural discrimination against women and the broader problems with China's economy, politics, and development that lie behind it. This updated edition includes a new preface exploring developments in China in the 10 years since the book's original publication, including the new "three child policy", the growth in online feminist and LGBTQ activism and the state's increasingly repressive moves against dissent.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781350323636
eBook ISBN
9781350323650
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Chinese History
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface to tenth anniversary edition
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. China’s “leftover” women
  8. 2. How Chinese women were shut out of the biggest accumulation of real-estate wealth in history
  9. 3. China’s giant gender wealth gap
  10. 4. Back to the Ming dynasty
  11. 5. Wives caught in China’s web of abuse
  12. 6. Fighting back
  13. Acknowledgments
  14. Notes
  15. Curated further reading
  16. Index
  17. Imprint