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Women, the family, and peasant revolution in China

Kay Ann Johnson (Author)
Historical account of the family and social role of women (including Rural women) in China - analyses the traditional family and social change initiated in 1921 by the revolution; comments on the economic policy of family reform under communist rule, particularly the impact of land reform on womens rights and the 1950 legislation on family law; discusses the mobilisation of female labour supply during the collectivism phase and evolution of the family between 1955 and 1980. References

Print Book, English, 1983
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1983