Holding up Half the Sky by Shirley Mow

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Holding up Half the Sky by Shirley Mow

Mao Zedong's famous statement that women hold up half the sky marked a new recognition of Chinese women's contributions to their society--but only today is there a rich and extensive body of research by Chinese women about women in China.

Drawing together work by many of China's most distinguished women scholars, this collection presents twenty-one essays that address issues relating to women in the workplace, women's education, and women's role in marriage, family, and in cultural and political life. With statistics and accounts otherwise unavailable in the West, they reveal a feminist activism among China's women that is breathtaking both for the problems it confronts and for the spirit of the struggle it embodies.

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Tao Jie is a professor of English and deputy director of the Women's Studies Center at Peking University. Her publications include translations of the works by William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, and Alice Walker into Chinese.

Zheng Bijun is professor emerita of history and the former director of the Women's Studies Center at Peking University. An advisor to the Chinese Society for Women's Studies and former vice president of the Beijing Society for Women's Studies, she has published widely on women in Chinese history.

Shirley L. Mow has served as associate director of the Educational Partnership Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz; executive director of the Westchester Education Coalition; and associate dean of University College of Pace University.

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ISBN 13 9781558614659
ISBN 10 1558614656
Title Holding up Half the Sky
Author Shirley Mow
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Year published 2004-05-13
Number of pages 352
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