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Zusatztext Making the most of her experience as a journalist and her training in sociology, Leta Hong Fincher draws on previous breakthrough works in Chinese gender studies and her own interviews, while proving equally at home summarizing statistics and telling poignant tales of individual experience. The result is an engagingly written, thought-provoking work on a crucially important but often overlooked subject. Essential reading. Informationen zum Autor Leta Hong Fincher has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Ms. Magazine, BBC and others. She is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University's Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. She is the author of Leftover Women (Zed, 2014) and Betraying Big Brother (2018). Klappentext Leta Hong Fincher's landmark book Leftover Women shone a light on the resurgence of gender inequality in 21st-century China. Ten years on, women in China continue to experience a dramatic rolling back of rights and gains in the increasingly patriarchal political climate of the Xi Jinping era. Leftover Women explores the structural discrimination against women and the broader problems with China's economy, politics, and development that lie behind them. This updated edition includes a new preface exploring developments in China in the 10 years since the book's original publication, including the new "three child policy", the growth in online feminist and LGBTQ activism and the state's increasingly repressive moves against dissent. Vorwort An updated edition of Leta Hong Fincher's landmark exposé of the position of women in China and of the state-perpetuated myths about 'leftover' women. Zusammenfassung A China Books Review Best China Book of 2023 Leta Hong Fincher's landmark book Leftover Women shone a light on the resurgence of gender inequality in 21st-century China. Ten years on, women in China continue to experience a dramatic rolling back of rights and gains in the increasingly patriarchal political climate of the Xi Jinping era. Leftover Women explores the structural discrimination against women and the broader problems with China’s economy, politics, and development that lie behind it. This updated edition includes a new preface exploring developments in China in the 10 years since the book's original publication, including the new "three child policy", the growth in online feminist and LGBTQ activism and the state's increasingly repressive moves against dissent. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the Revised EditionIntroduction 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 BackIndex...
