1st Edition
Gender Discrimination at Work in Urban China The Paradox of Equality and Difference in the Women's Liberation Movement
List of Figures. List of Tables. Foreword. Preface. Introduction: Towards an Understanding on the Origin of Gender Discrimination 1. Gender Equality or Gender Sameness: Women at Work in Communist China (1949–1978) 2. Patterns of Gender Discrimination at Work in Reform Period China (1980–1990 and 1990–2000) 3. Patterns of Gender Discrimination at Work in Post-Reform Period China (2000–2010 and 2010–2024) 4. Women’s ‘Work’ in Contemporary China: Personal or Political? 5. Paradox of Equality and Difference: Contemporary Discourse on Gender in China 6. Towards Conclusion. Afterword. Index.
Biography
Usha Chandran is an assistant professor at Centre for Chinese and South East Asian Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University and an Honorary Fellow, at the Institute of Chinese Studies. She holds a PhD in Chinese on Gender issues in China from JNU. Her major research interests include gender issues in China and comparison with India, an interface between gender and language as well as popular culture and women’s subjectivity in literature.
