Gender, China and the World Trade Organization: Essays from Feminist Economics

by Berik; Gnnseli

• ISBN13: 9780415499040
• ISBN10: 0415499046
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-14
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The essays in this volume examine how women's well-being compared with men's is being affected by the reforms associated with China's membership in the WTO.This book was published as a special issue of Feminist Economics .

Table of Contents

ChinaG++s Transition and Feminist Economics

Land Management in Rural China and Its Gender Implications

Gender and Rural Reforms in China: A Case Study of Population Control and Land Rights Policies in Northern Liaoning

WomenG++s Market Work and Household Status in Rural China: Evidence from Jiangsu and Shandong in the Late 1990s

Gender Dynamics and Redundancy in Urban China

An Ocean Formed from One Hundred Rivers: The Effects of Ethnicity, Gender, Marriage, and Location on Labor Force Participation in Urban China

Gender Equity in Transitional ChinaG++s Healthcare Policy Reforms

Foreign Direct Investment and Gendered Wages in Urban China

Gendering the Dormitory Labor System: Production, Reproduction, and Migrant Labor in South China

Chinese Women after the Accession to the World Trade Organization: A Legal Perspective on WomenG++s Labor Rights

Western Cosmetics in the Gendered Development of Consumer Culture in China

Meinu Jingji/ChinaG++s Beauty Economy: Buying Looks, Shifting Value, and Changing Place

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