1st Edition

Gender and Generation in China Today

Edited By Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen Copyright 2022
116 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines how gender and generational relations have been influenced by the vast changes in the Chinese society since the start of the Reform era in 1978. It offers a short introduction to China's recent development and the relationship between Chinese and Nordic gender research. Three articles in the book focus on how the developments in the Reform era have produced generational changes... Read more

Introduction: Gender and Generation in Times of Change in China

Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen

1. From "Non-governmental Organizing" to "Outer-system"—Feminism and Feminist Resistance in Post-2000 China

Qi Wang

2. Increasing Employment Precariousness in Post-socialist China: Everyone Equal in a World of Uncertainty?

Sandra V. Constantin

3. Filial Daughter? Filial Son? How China’s Young Urban Elite Negotiate Intergenerational Obligations

Lisa Eklund

4. Feeding Mothers’ Love: Stories of Breastfeeding and Mothering in Urban China

Michala Hvidt Breengaard

5. Chinese Fathers in the Twentieth Century: Changing Roles as Parents and as Men

Xuan Li

6. A New Generation of Sino-Nordic Gender Matters

Cecilia Nathansen Milwertz

7. Book Review: Transforming Chinese Patriarchy: Chinese Families in the Twenty-First Century

Susanne Bregnbæk

Biography

Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen is Professor at the Centre for Gender Research at the University of Oslo. She was the director of the centre 1993–2009. Her area of research is gender, age, generation, and social change. Her latest book is Feeling Gender: A Generational and Psychosocial Approach, published in 2017 as open access.