Transforming patriarchy : Chinese families in the twenty-first century
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Transforming patriarchy : Chinese families in the twenty-first century
University of Washington Press, c2017
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-283) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Each successive wave of revolution to hit modern China-political, cultural, and economic-has radically reshaped Chinese society. Whereas patriarchy defined the familial social structure for thousands of years, changing realities in the last hundred years have altered and even reversed long-held expectations. Transforming Patriarchy explores the private and public dimensions of these changes in present-day China. Patriarchy is not dead, but it is no longer the default arrangement for Chinese families: Daughters-in-law openly berate their fathers-in-law. Companies sell filial-piety insurance. Many couples live together before marriage, and in some parts of rural China, almost all brides are pregnant.
Drawing on a multitude of sources and perspectives, this volume turns to the intimate territory of the family to challenge prevailing scholarly assumptions about gender and generational hierarchies in Chinese society. Case studies examine factors such as social class, geography, and globalization as they relate to patriarchal practice and resistance to it. The contributors bring the concept of patriarchy back to the heart of China studies while rethinking its significance in dominant Western-centric theories of modernity.
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Note on Transcription
Introduction / Stevan Harrell and Goncalo Santos
Part One | Rural Reconfigurations
1. Dutiful Help: Masking Rural Women's Economic Contributions / Melissa J. Brown 000
2. From Care Providers to Financial Burdens: The Changing Role of Sons and Reproductive Choice in Rural Northeast China / Lihong Shi
3. Higher Education, Gender, and Elder Support in Rural Northwest China / Helena Obendiek
4. Multiple Mothering and Labor Migration in Rural South China / Goncalo Santos
Part Two | Class, Gender, and Patriarchy in Urban Society
5. Urbanization and the Transformation of Kinship Practice in Shandong / Andrew B. Kipnis
6. Being the Right Woman for "Mr. Right": Marriage and Household Politics in Present-Day Nanjing / Roberta Zavoretti
7. Emergent Conjugal Love, Mutual Affection, and Female Marital Power / William Jankowiak and Xuan Li
8. Under Pressure: Lesbian-Gay Contract Marriages and Their Patriarchal Bargains / Elisabeth L. Engebretsen
9. Patriarchal Investments: Expectations of Male Authority and Support in a Poor Beijing Neighborhood / Harriet Evans
Part Three | New Technologies, New Institutions
10. Taking Patriarchy Out of Postpartum Recovery? / Suzanne Gottschang
11. Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Sperm Donation, and Biological Kinship: A Recent Chinese Media Debate / Kerstin Klein
12. Recalibrating Filial Piety: Realigning the State, Family, and Market Interests in China / Hong Zhang
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