TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Kay Ann
TI  - Women, the family, and peasant revolution in China
SN  - 9780226401942 (electronic bk.)
AV  - HQ1767 .J63 1983eb
U1  - 305.4/0951 22
PY  - 1983///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Women peasants
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - Confucianism
KW  - Families
KW  - Socialism
KW  - Confucio y confucianismo
KW  - Familia
KW  - Historia
KW  - Socialismo en China
KW  - Femmes
KW  - Chine
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Confucianisme
KW  - Famille
KW  - Socialisme
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Women's Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Vrouwen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Sociale situatie
KW  - Rural conditions
KW  - Conditions rurales
KW  - Society
KW  - Role of women, 1921-1980
KW  - ჩინეთი
KW  - საზოგადოება
KW  - ქალის როლო, 1921-1980
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Prerevolutionary Setting -- 1. Women and the Traditional Chinese Family -- 2. The Twentieth-Century Family Crisis -- 2 Women and the Family in the Chinese Revolution, 1921-49 -- 3. Women and the Party: The Early Years, 1921-27 -- 4. The Kiangsi Soviet Period, 1929-34 -- 5. The Yenan Experience and the Final Civil War, 1936-49 -- 6. Legacies of the Revolutionary Era -- 3 Family Reform in the People's Republic, 1950-53 -- 7. The Politics of Family Reform -- 8. Land Reform and Women's Rights -- 9. The 1950 Marriage Law: Popular Resistance and Organizational Neglect -- 10. The 1953 Marriage Law Campaign -- 4 Women, the Family and the Chinese Road to Socialism, 1955-80 -- 11. Collectivization and the Mobilization of Female Labor -- 12. The Cultural Revolution -- 13. The Anti-Confucian Campaign -- 14. Current Rural Practice -- 15. Conclusion: Family Reform-the Uncompleted Task -- Appendix: The 1950 Marriage Law -- Notes -- Index
N2  - Kay Ann Johnson provides much-needed information about women and gender equality under Communist leadership. She contends that, although the Chinese Communist Party has always ostensibly favored women's rights and family reform, it has rarely pushed for such reforms. In reality, its policies often have reinforced the traditional role of women to further the Party's predominant economic and military aims. Johnson's primary focus is on reforms of marriage and family because traditional marriage, family, and kinship practices have had the greatest influence in defining and shaping women's place i
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