Chinese Women - Living and Working (Asian Studies Association of Australia Women in Asia)

This book presents significant new findings on new domains of employment for women in China's burgeoning market economy of the 1990s and the twenty-first century. Experts in gender, politics, media studies, and anthropology discuss the impact of economic reform and globalization on Chinese women in family businesses, management, the professions, the prostitution industry and domestic service. Significant themes include changing marriage and consumer aspirations and the reinvention of domestic space. The volume offers fresh insights into changing definitions of 'women's work' in contemporary China and questions women's perceived 'disadvantage' in the market economy.Anne McLaren is the author of 'Chinese Women - Living and Working (Asian Studies Association of Australia Women in Asia)', published 2003 under ISBN 9780415406185 and ISBN 0415406188.