On Norms and Agency - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Norms and Agency write by Ana María Muñoz Boudet. This book was released on 2013-04-25. On Norms and Agency available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on focus groups and interviews with nearly 4,000 women, men, girls, and boys from 20 countries, this book explores areas that are less often studied in gender and development: gender norms and agency. It reveals how little gender norms have changed, how similar they are across countries, and how they are being challenged and contested.
The State Strikes Back
The State Strikes Back - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The State Strikes Back write by Nicholas R. Lardy. This book was released on 2019-01-01. The State Strikes Back available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. China's extraordinarily rapid economic growth since 1978, driven by market-oriented reforms, has set world records and continued unabated, despite predictions of an inevitable slowdown. In The State Strikes Back: The End of Economic Reform in China?, renowned China scholar Nicholas R. Lardy argues that China's future growth prospects could be equally bright but are shadowed by the specter of resurgent state dominance, which has begun to diminish the vital role of the market and private firms in China's economy. Lardy's book arrives in timely fashion as a sequel to his pathbreaking Markets over Mao: The Rise of Private Business in China, published by PIIE in 2014. This book mobilizes new data to trace how President Xi Jinping has consistently championed state-owned or controlled enterprises, encouraging local political leaders and financial institutions to prop up ailing, underperforming companies that are a drag on China's potential. As with his previous book, Lardy's perspective departs from conventional wisdom, especially in its contention that China could achieve a high growth rate for the next two decades—if it reverses course and returns to the path of market-oriented reforms.
Gender and Chinese Development
Gender and Chinese Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender and Chinese Development write by Lanyan Chen. This book was released on 2009-02-11. Gender and Chinese Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gender and the "three rural problems" -- Gender and industrial reforms: from ownership restructuring to social protection -- Gender and the family planning policy: "population security" free from sex selection -- Chinese women in decision making: from grassroots governance to national politics.
Leftover Women
Leftover Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Leftover Women write by Leta Hong Fincher. This book was released on 2016-07-31. Leftover Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ‘Scattered with inspiring life-stories of courageous women.’ The Guardian In the early years of the People’s Republic, the Communist Party sought to transform gender relations. Yet those gains have been steadily eroded in China’s post-socialist era. Contrary to the image presented by China’s media, women in China have experienced a dramatic rollback of rights and gains relative to men. In Leftover Women, Leta Hong Fincher exposes shocking levels of structural discrimination against women, and the broader damage this has caused to China’s economy, politics, and development.
New Modern Chinese Women and Gender Politics
New Modern Chinese Women and Gender Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Modern Chinese Women and Gender Politics write by Chen Ya-chen. This book was released on 2014-07-11. New Modern Chinese Women and Gender Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The past century witnessed dramatic changes in the lives of modern Chinese women and gender politics. Whilst some revolutionary actions to rectify the feudalist patriarchy, such as foot-binding and polygyny were first seen in the late Qing period; the termination of the Qing Dynasty and establishment of Republican China in 1911-1912 initiated truly nation-wide constitutional reform alongside increasing gender egalitarianism. This book traces the radical changes in gender politics in China, and the way in which the lives, roles and status of Chinese women have been transformed over the last one hundred years. In doing so, it highlights three distinctive areas of development for modern Chinese women and gender politics: first, women’s equal rights, freedom, careers, and images about their modernized femininity; second, Chinese women’s overseas experiences and accomplishments; and third, advances in Chinese gender politics of non-heterosexuality and same-sex concerns. This book takes a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing on film, history, literature, and personal experience. As such, it will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Chinese culture and society, women's studies, gender studies and gender politics.
