Zed Books, 2014
A century ago, Chinese feminists fighting for the emancipation of women
helped spark the Republican Revolution, which overthrew the Qing empire.
After China's Communist revolution of 1949, Chairman Mao famously
proclaimed that "women hold up half the sky." In the early years of the
People's Republic, the Communist Party sought to transform gender
relations with expansive initiatives such as assigning urban women jobs
in the planned economy. Yet those gains are now being eroded in China's
post-socialist era. Contrary to many claims made in the mainstream
media, women in China have experienced a dramatic rollback of many
rights and gains relative to men. Leftover Women debunks the popular myth that women have fared well as a result of post-socialist China's economic reforms and breakneck growth. Laying out the structural discrimination against women in China will speak to broader problems with China's economy, politics, and development.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. China's 'leftover' women
2. How Chinese Women were shut out of the biggest accumulation of real-estate wealth in history
3. China's giant gender wealth gap
4. Back to the Ming dynasty
5. Wives caught in China's web of abuse
6. Fighting back
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