Re-Drawing Boundaries - Work, Households, and Gender in China

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About the author

Barbara Entwisle is Professor of Sociology and Fellow at the Carolina Population Center at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research, published in sociology and demography journals, explores relationships between
demographic, social, and environmental change in developing societies.
Currently, she is an editor of Demography.Gail E. Henderson is Professor of Social Medicine in the School of Medicine at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research has focused on heath services utilization in China, and on research ethics. She is co-editor, most recently, of Beyond Regulations: The Ethics of
Human Subjects Research (1999) and The Social Medicine Reader (1997).

Summary

This text explores changes to the nature of work in relation to changes in households, migration patterns, and gender in post-Mao China. The book examines how gender roles have been redefined by the economic and institutional changes that arose from this era of economic market reform.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Henderson Entwisle, Entwisle/Henderson
• Assisted by: Barbara Entwisle (Editor), Entwisle Barbara (Editor), Gail Henderson (Editor), Gail E. Henderson (Editor), Henderson Gail E. (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.11.2000
• EAN: 9780520220911
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22091-1
• No. of pages: 356
• Series: Studies on China; Studies on China
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; China, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Regional Studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional / International studies, Sociology: work & labour, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General