China's leftover women : late marriage among professional women and its consequences
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China's leftover women : late marriage among professional women and its consequences
(ASAA women in Asia series / editor, Louise Edwards)
Routledge, 2017, c2015
- : pbk
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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
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p[182]-192
Includes index
Originally published: 2015
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The term "sheng nu" ("leftover women") has been recently coined in China to describe the increasing number of women, especially highly educated professional women in their late twenties and over who have not married. This book explores this phenomenon, reporting on extensive research among "leftover women", research which reveals that the majority of women are keen to get married, contrary to the notion that traditional marriage has lost its appeal among the new generations of economically independent women. The book explains the reasons behind these women's failures to get married, discusses the consequences for the future make-up of China's population at the dawn of its modification of the one child policy, and compares the situation in China with that in other countries. The book provides practical solutions for educated women's courtship dilemmas, and long term solutions for China's partnering issues, gender relations, and marriage formation. The book also relates the 'leftover women' problem to theories of family, mate selection, feminism, and individualization.
Table of Contents
Preface 1. Highly Educated, Accomplished ...and Unmarried: Introduction to China's 'Leftover Women' 2. 'I'm Very Traditional so I Must Get Married!': Traditional Marriage Views of Modern Career Women 3. 'I Have a Lot of Friends who are Still Single Because Men Think that we are Too Tough!': Discrimination in the Marriage Market 4. 'I'm Quite Unhappy Because he Made me Face the Choice.... So I Chose Work': Patriarchal Demands and Difficult Choices 5. 'I Have a Lot of Western Colleagues who Say they Don't Like their Wives not Working. They Think they Should Utilize their Talents': Contesting Discriminatory Constraints 6. 'I Would Like to Find Someone who Can Take Care of Things at Home and Complement my Schedule': Combating Controlling Constraints 7. The Strategies of Partner Choice: Maximizers, Traditionalists, Satisficers, Innovators 8. The Future of China's 'Leftover Women': Conclusion
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