Changing Approaches to Gender and Development in Rural China

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    Description

    In contemporary rural China women face severe gender discrimination and disadvantage. This project examines the ways the Chinese women s movement addresses these issues. Since the mid 1990s the Chinese women s movement has been strongly influenced by international feminist and development discourses. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this project examines the effects of these discourses on women s groups activities in rural areas. It will contribute to improvements in theory and practice aimed at overcoming women s subordination in China and elsewhere, and to advances in debates over the political significance of international feminist and development discourses in post-socialist contexts.
    StatusFinished
    Effective start/end date1/01/0631/12/11

    Funding

    • Australian Research Council (ARC): A$150,858.00

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