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Author Bossen, Laurel, 1945-

Title Chinese women and rural development : sixty years of change in Lu Village, Yunnan / Laurel Bossen
Published Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2002]
©2002

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Description xxvii, 393 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents Preface: Discovering a Matriline -- 1. Lu Village in Southwest China: Unearthing Gender -- 2. Perspectives in Time -- 3. Trade and Beauty: The Demise of Footbinding in Lu Village -- 4. Gender in Land Tenure, Farming, and Employment -- 5. The Wealth of a Gifted Woman: The Shaman of Lu Village -- 6. Wealth and Poverty, 1930s to 1990s: Paths to Ruin and Fortune -- 7. Marriage, Household, and Gender: Keeping Sons and Daughters -- 8. Demographic Change, Family Planning, and Sex Preference -- 9. Politics and Political Culture -- 10. Unbinding China's Peasants
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-379) and index
Subject Women in rural development -- China -- Lucun (Yunnan Sheng)
Women -- China -- Lucun (Yunnan Sheng) -- Social conditions.
Sex role -- China -- Lucun (Yunnan Sheng)
Footbinding -- China -- Lucun (Yunnan Sheng)
SUBJECT Lucun (Yunnan Sheng, China) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97053943 -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850
LC no. 2001044378
ISBN 0742511073 cloth alkaline paper
0742511081 paperback alkaline paper
Other Titles Sixty years of change in Lu Village, Yunnan