By Jieyu Liu
Although it's commonly believed in China that socialism raised women’s prestige and paid paintings liberated them from the shackles of patriarchy, the commercial reforms of the final 20 years of the twentieth century intended girls employees have been extra liable to wasting their jobs than males. not like prior reports, that have inquisitive about the macro-structural positive aspects of this procedure, this booklet makes the voices of normal ladies staff heard and applies feminist views on ladies and paintings to the chinese language situation.
Drawing upon broad lifestyles heritage interviews, this publication contests the view that mobilizing ladies into the place of work led to their liberation. as an alternative, the gendered redundancy they skilled used to be the fruits of a lifetime’s reports of gender inequalities. surroundings their lifestyles tales opposed to a backdrop of significant social-political upheaval in China, the ebook means that the ladies of this ‘unlucky new release’ have borne the brunt of sufferings brought on by sacrifices they made for the advance of socialist China.
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