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Work and Family in Urban China

Women’s Changing Experience since Mao

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  • © 2016

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  1. Jiping Zuo

    1. St. Cloud State University , Saint Cloud, USA

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Part of the book series: Politics and Development of Contemporary China (PDCC)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-20

  3. State-Socialist Era (1949—The 1980s)

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      Pages 21-21
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    2. Equalizing Gender and Class

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      Pages 23-44

    3. Socialist Workers, National Heroines

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      Pages 45-65

    4. Women’s Triple Burden

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      Pages 67-76

  4. Market-Reform Era (The 1990s—Present)

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      Pages 77-77
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    2. Labor Denigration and Work–Family Conflict

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      Pages 79-95

    3. Women’s Domestic-Role Orientation

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      Pages 97-117

    4. Diverse Roles, A Common Dilemma

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      Pages 119-138

    5. A Different Marital Equality

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      Pages 139-153

  5. Conclusion

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      Pages 155-155
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    2. Conclusion and Implications

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      Pages 157-181

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 183-215
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About this book

This book examines a three-way interaction among market, state, and family in China’s recent market reform. It depicts transformations in urban women’s experiences with both paid and non-paid domestic work. The book challenges China’s free-market approach and demonstrates its negative impacts on women’s work and family experiences by revealing labor commodification processes and work-to-family conflicts as the state abandons its commitment to public welfare. Using interview data collected from 165 women of three different cohorts in urban China during the 2000-2008 period, this study uncovers the revival of traditional gendered family roles among urban women and men as one of their strategies to resist market brutality and their struggles to balance work and family demands. The book also explores urban women’s non-market definitions of marital equality, and highlights theoretical and policy implications concerning market efficiency, marital equality, and the state’s role in protectingpublic good.

Authors and Affiliations

  • St. Cloud State University , Saint Cloud, USA

    Jiping Zuo

About the author

Jiping Zuo is Professor of Sociology at St. Cloud State University, USA. Her research interests are in social construction of family roles, marital inequality, and state-family relations in contemporary China. Her recent publications can be found in Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Family Issues, Rural Sociology, Critical Sociology, and Science & Society.

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