Leftover Women in China
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Leftover Women in China

Understanding Legal Consciousness through Intergenerational Relationships

  1. 236 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Leftover Women in China

Understanding Legal Consciousness through Intergenerational Relationships

About this book

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Leftover Women in China offers an intimate empirical and theoretical analysis of the lived experience and legal consciousness of China's "leftover women," women who remain unmarried in their late twenties and beyond. Drawing on in-depth interviews and focus groups, Qian Liu examines how leftover women—including women who prefer to remain single, those who are waiting for the right husband, and queer women—deal with parental and social pressures, as well as the denial of their right to have children outside of heterosexual marriage. Sensitively exploring the distinctive patterns of parent-child interactions in Chinese families, Liu invites readers to understand leftover women's observance, evasion, and manipulation of the law in the context of intergenerational relationships and obligations.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Subvention
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Anxious Parents and Filial Daughters in the One-Child Nation
  9. 2. Relation-Based Legal Consciousness
  10. 3. Suzhi and Parental Expectations
  11. 4. Manipulating the Law for Its Imprimatur
  12. Conclusion
  13. Appendix: Fieldwork and Methods
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index