The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past Volume 8

by Gail Hershatter

Book Overview

What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group--rural women--at the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Interweaving these women's life histories with insightful analysis, Hershatter shows how Party-state policy became local and personal, and how it affected...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520282493
• ISBN13: 9780520282490
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"