Women in China's Long Twentieth Century (Övrig)
avGail Hershatter
ISBN: 9780520098565 - UTGIVEN: 2007-03-29This indispensable guide for students of both Chinese and women's history synthesizes recent research on women in twentieth-century China. Written by a leading historian of China, it surveys more than 650 scholarly works, discussing Chinese women in the context of marriage, family, sexuality, labor,[...]
Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai (Övrig)
avGail Hershatter
ISBN: 9780520204393 - UTGIVEN: 1999-02-11This pioneering work examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawn mostly from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declasse elites, prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and gender hierarchies. Yet they were central figures in Sh[...]
The Gender Of Memory (Inbunden)
avGail Hershatter
ISBN: 9780520267701 - UTGIVEN: 2011-08-05What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group--rural women--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[...]
