TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fincher, Leta  Hong 
AU  - Fincher, Leta  Hong 
TI  - Leftover Women:  : the Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China
SN  - 9781783607891
U1  - 305.4095 FIN 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York 
PB  - : Zed Books, 
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  -  Groups of people
KW  - Sex discrimination against women -- China
KW  - Right of property -- China
KW  - Social Science  -- Minority Studies
KW  - Social Science  -- Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - China
KW  - Social ställning
N1  - China's "leftover" women --
How Chinese women were shut out of the biggest accumulation of real-estate wealth in history --
China's giant gender wealth gap --
Back to the Ming dynasty --
Wives caught in China's web of abuse --
Fighting back. Asian Arguments; About the Author; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Introduction; 1 China's "leftover" women; How the state stigmatizes single educated women in their late twenties; Marriage, social stability and upgrading "population quality"; Dismantling women's gains of the past; 2 How Chinese women were shut out of the biggest accumulation of real-estate wealth in history; Homes worth US30 trillion, most registered in men's names; "He's going to be the landlord and I'll pay him rent"; "I have been cast aside by the law"; 3 China's giant gender wealth gap; The hukou system. Why parents tend to buy homes for sons but not daughtersHow state promotion of marriage and new households fuels real-estate mania; Why real-estate wealth is more important than income for Chinese women; 4 Back to the Ming dynasty; The golden age for women's property rights: 1,000 years ago?; Women's "liberation" in the Republican and Communist revolutions; Marriage and the erosion of women's property rights in the post-Mao era; 5 Wives caught in China's web of abuse; "Don't expose family ugliness"; "The system is designed to make you give up"; "Why should I give her a divorce? We're family." 6 Fighting backWomen's resistance in the authoritarian state; Gender and LGBTQ activism; The future of women's rights in China; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; Asian Arguments published titles
N2  - Contrary to many claims made in the media, women in China have experienced a dramatic rollback of rights and gains relative to men. Leftover Women lays out the structural discrimination against women and speaks to broader problems with China's economy, politics, and development
ER  -