New Modern Chinese Women and Gender Politics - Bog

This book traces the radical changes in gender politics in China, and the way in which the lives, roles and status of Chinese women have been transformed over the last one hundred years. In doing so, it highlights three distinctive areas of development for modern Chinese women and gender politics: first, women¿s equal rights, freedom, careers, and images about their modernized femininity; second, Chinese women¿s overseas experiences and accomplishments; and third, advances in Chinese gender politics of non-heterosexuality and same-sex concerns.