TY - BOOK ID - 77870870 TI - Women, the family, and peasant revolution in China AU - Johnson, Kay Ann. AU - American Council of Learned Societies. PY - 1983 SN - 1282069985 9786612069987 0226401944 9780226401942 9780226401874 0226401871 0226401898 9780226401898 6612069988 0226401871 9780226401898 PB - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, DB - UniCat KW - Confucianism KW - Families KW - Socialism KW - Women peasants KW - Peasant women KW - Peasants KW - Rural women KW - Religions KW - History. KW - China KW - Rural conditions. KW - S11/0701 KW - S11/0705 KW - S11/0720 KW - S11/0730 KW - #SML: Joseph Spae KW - China: Social sciences--Clan and family in transition: general and before 1949 KW - China: Social sciences--Clan and family: since 1949 KW - China: Social sciences--Women's emancipation movement: general and before 1949 KW - China: Social sciences--Women: since 1949 KW - women, gender, family, household, china, peasant, revolution, social change, history, politics, asia, equality, communism, leadership, reform, womens rights, feminism, tradition, economics, marriage, kinship, population, birth rate, one child policy, marxism, anthropology, political science, abortion, government, female infanticide, confucianism, socialism, rural, village, nonfiction, land, labor, yenan, soviet, kiangsi. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77870870 AB - Kay Ann Johnson provides much-needed information about women and gender equality under Communist leadership. She contends that, although the Chinese Communist Party has always ostensibly favored women's rights and family reform, it has rarely pushed for such reforms. In reality, its policies often have reinforced the traditional role of women to further the Party's predominant economic and military aims. Johnson's primary focus is on reforms of marriage and family because traditional marriage, family, and kinship practices have had the greatest influence in defining and shaping women's place in Chinese society. Conversant with current theory in political science, anthropology, and Marxist and feminist analysis, Johnson writes with clarity and discernment free of dogma. Her discussions of family reform ultimately provide insights into the Chinese government's concern with decreasing the national birth rate, which has become a top priority. Johnson's predictions of a coming crisis in population control are borne out by the recent increase in female infanticide and the government abortion campaign. ER -