 |
|
|
Item Details
| Title:
|
INTIMATE POLITICS
MARRIAGE, THE MARKET, AND STATE POWER IN SOUTHEASTERN CHINA |
| By: |
Sara L. Friedman |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
|
£41.95 |
| Our price: |
£33.56 |
| Discount: |
|
| You save:
|
£8.39 |
|
|
|
|
|
| ISBN 10: |
0674021282 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780674021280 |
| Availability: |
Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.
 Delivery
rates
|
| Stock: |
Currently 0 available |
| Publisher: |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 June, 2006 |
| Edition: |
First ed. |
| Series: |
Harvard East Asian Monographs No. 265 |
| Pages: |
400 |
| Description: |
Explores the practices that have constituted eastern Hui'an residents, women in particular, as an anomaly among rural Han. This book asks what such practices have come to mean in a post-1949 socialist order that has incorporated forms of marriage, labour and dress into a developmental scale extending from the primitive to the civilised. |
| Synopsis: |
On a visit to eastern Hui'an in 1994, Sara Friedman was surprised to see a married woman reluctant to visit her conjugal home. The author would soon learn that this practice was typical of the area, along with distinctive female dress styles, gender divisions of labour, and powerful same-sex networks. These customs, she would learn, have long distinguished villages in this coastal region of south-eastern China from other rural Han communities. "Intimate Politics" explores these practices that have constituted eastern Hui'an residents, women in particular, as an anomaly among rural Han. This book asks what such practices have come to mean in a post-1949 socialist order that has incorporated forms of marriage, labour and dress into a developmental scale extending from the primitive to the civilised. Government reform campaigns were part of a wholesale effort to remake Chinese society by replacing its 'feudal' elements with liberated socialist ideals and practices. As state actors became involved in the intimate aspects of Huidong women's lives, their official models of progress were challenged by the diversity of local practices and commitment of local residents.These politicised entanglements have generated what the author calls 'intimate politics', a form of embodied struggle in which socialist civilising agendas - from the state-sponsored reforms of the Maoist decades to the market-based 'reform and opening' of the post-Mao era - have been formulated, contested and, in some cases, transformed through the bodies and practices of local women. |
| Illustrations: |
21 line illustrations, 3 maps, 1 table |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Harvard University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
Little Worried Caterpillar (PB)
Little Green knows she''s about to make a big change - transformingfrom a caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly. Everyone is VERYexcited! But Little Green is VERY worried. What if being a butterflyisn''t as brilliant as everyone says?Join Little Green as she finds her own path ... with just a littlehelp from her friends.
|
|
All the Things We Carry PB
What can you carry?A pebble? A teddy? A bright red balloon? A painting you''ve made?A hope or a dream?This gorgeous, reassuring picture book celebrates all the preciousthings we can carry, from toys and treasures to love and hope. With comforting rhymes and fabulous illustrations, this is a warmhug of a picture book.
|
|
|
|