Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations
Xie, Kailing![Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/388/38808965/CHSBZCOP0338808965.jpg)
This book takes a feminist approach to analyse the lives of well-educated urban Chinese women, who were raised to embody the ideals of a modern Chinese nation and are largely the beneficiaries of the policy changes of the post-Mao era. It explores young women's gendered attitudes to and experiences of marriage, reproductive choices, careers and aspirations for a good life. It sheds light on what keeps mainstream Chinese middle-class women conf...