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Author | : Hui Faye Xiao |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2014-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 029580498X |
As state control of private life in China has loosened since 1980, citizens have experienced an unprecedented family revolution—an overhaul of family structure, marital practices, and gender relationships. While the nuclear family has become a privileged realm of romance and individualism symbolizing the post-revolutionary “freedoms” of economic and affective autonomy, women’s roles in particular have been transformed, with the ideal “iron girl” of socialism replaced by the feminine, family-oriented “good wife and wise mother.” Problems and contradictions in this new domestic culture have been exposed by China's soaring divorce rate. Reading popular “divorce narratives” in fiction, film, and TV drama, Hui Faye Xiao shows that the representation of marital discord has become a cultural battleground for competing ideologies within post-revolutionary China. While these narratives present women’s cultivation of wifely and maternal qualities as the cure for family disintegration and social unrest, Xiao shows that they in fact reflect a problematic resurgence of traditional gender roles and a powerful mode of control over supposedly autonomous private life.
Author | : Kay Ann Johnson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2009-02-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0226401944 |
Kay Ann Johnson provides much-needed information about women and gender equality under Communist leadership. She contends that, although the Chinese Communist Party has always ostensibly favored women's rights and family reform, it has rarely pushed for such reforms. In reality, its policies often have reinforced the traditional role of women to further the Party's predominant economic and military aims. Johnson's primary focus is on reforms of marriage and family because traditional marriage, family, and kinship practices have had the greatest influence in defining and shaping women's place in Chinese society. Conversant with current theory in political science, anthropology, and Marxist and feminist analysis, Johnson writes with clarity and discernment free of dogma. Her discussions of family reform ultimately provide insights into the Chinese government's concern with decreasing the national birth rate, which has become a top priority. Johnson's predictions of a coming crisis in population control are borne out by the recent increase in female infanticide and the government abortion campaign.
Author | : Shefali Tsabary |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0399563962 |
"New from the New York Times bestselling author of The Conscious Parent comes a radically transformative plan that shows parents how to raise children to be their best, truest selves, "--Amazon.com.
Author | : Lynn Hunt |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2013-07-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1136135642 |
This latest work from an author known for her contributions to the new cultural history is a daring, multidisciplinary investigation of the imaginative foundations of modern politics. Hunt uses the term `Family Romance', (coined by Freud to describe the fantasy of being freed from one's family and belonging to one of higher social standing), in a broader sense, to describe the images of the familial order that structured the collective political unconscious. In a wide-ranging account that uses novels, engravings, paintings, speeches, newspaper editorials, pornographic writing, and revolutionary legislation about the family, Hunt shows that the politics of the French Revolution were experienced through the network of the family romance.
Author | : Shirley Christian |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780394744575 |
Journalist Christian's masterful, evenhanded account of Nicaragua's Sandinistas derives from years of interviews and on-the-scene observations. Beginning with the last days of the Somoza regime, she details the morass of political intrigue through November 1984. The problem is, she argues, that the success of ``sandinismo'' turned the people from instigators of change into objects of change, both in the eyes of the church and of the state. As the center of the struggle flew out of control onto the battlefields of Havana, Washington, Rome, and Panama, democratic principles were subordinated to other peoples' needs, a no-win situation for the peasants. To draw conclusions about Nicaragua, Christian emphasizes, is a lot more difficult than superficial U.S. policy would imply.
Author | : Bora Ćosić |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
A comic novella on 1960s Yugoslavia in which a family attempts to create a version of the socialist society in its kitchen. The novella is accompanied by a collection of essays, one of which deals with World War I as seen by Parisians.
Author | : Steven Mintz |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 603 |
Release | : 1989-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439105103 |
An examination of how the concept of “family” has been transformed over the last three centuries in the U.S., from its function as primary social unit to today’s still-evolving model. Based on a wide reading of letters, diaries and other contemporary documents, Mintz, an historian, and Kellogg, an anthropologist, examine the changing definition of “family” in the United States over the course of the last three centuries, beginning with the modified European model of the earliest settlers. From there they survey the changes in the families of whites (working class, immigrants, and middle class) and blacks (slave and free) since the Colonial years, and identify four deep changes in family structure and ideology: the democratic family, the companionate family, the family of the 1950s, and lastly, the family of the '80s, vulnerable to societal changes but still holding together.
Author | : Suzanne Desan |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 475 |
Release | : 2006-06-19 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0520248163 |
Annotation A sophisticated and groundbreaking book on what women actually did and what actually happened to them during the French Revolution.
Author | : Marion Joseph Levy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mary Gottschalk |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781889334042 |