Beyond Overcoming: A Woman Writer's Articulation of Pain in Socialist China.
Feminist inquiries into the status of women in Mao-era China have shed light on the challenges women experienced in their double role as producers and reproducers in the nascent socialist state. Less is known about how women lived up to expectations of (re)productivity while struggling with illness....
| Published in: | NAN NU -- Men, Women & Gender in Early & Imperial China Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 301 - 337 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2021
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