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The Chinese Women's Movement Between State and Market

The Chinese Women's Movement Between State and Market

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Women's Studies

ISBN10: 0804744068
ISBN13: 9780804744065
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: Jan 2 2002
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

When China embarked on its rural economic reforms in the early 1980s, changes for women were not a planned part of its program for economic development, in the countryside or in the nation at large.

In the late 1980s the official arm of the Chinese women's movement, the Women's Federations, began experimenting with a series of strategies designed to position women in the mainstream of the reform-era economy. A distinctive feature of this initiative was its focus on quality (suzhi), including literacy, general education, and practical technical training, and extending to a general effort to strengthen women's place in the market. The state's official women's movement had paradoxically become the major champion and architect of rural Chinese women's turn toward the market economy.

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