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

ISBN-13: 9780415499040 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 326 str.

Günseli Berik;Xiao-yuan Dong;Gale Summerfield

Opis

China’s joining the WTO at the end of 2001 signifies a milestone in the country’s global integration after two decades of economic reforms. These reforms have fundamentally transformed the organization of agricultural production and marketing, increased foreign direct investment, and brought tremendous growth in manufacturing and exports. This collection seeks to identify the gendered implications within China of the country’s transition from socialism to a market economy and its opening up to international trade and investment. The changes have created greater wealth for some, while at the same time, serious gender, class, ethnic, and regional disparities have also emerged. Drawing from historical, analytical, and policy-oriented work, the essays in this collection explore women’s well-being relative to men’s in rural and urban China by looking at land rights, labor-market status, household decision-making, health, the representation of women in advertising and beauty pageants.

Contributors employ a broad range of methods to show that while Chinese women as a whole have benefited from varied employment and consumption options, they face pressures to conform to traditional gender roles and unattainable western standards of feminine beauty, growing insecurity of land rights and employment, declining access to health care and an increasing elderly care burden.

This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal, Feminist Economics, the official journal of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE).  All contributions have been subjected to the journal's rigorous peer review process and comply with the journal's editorial policies, as overseen by the editor, Diana Strassmann, and the journal's editorial team, including the associate editors, the editorial board, numerous volunteer reviewers, and the journal's in-house editorial staff and freelance style editors. The special issue and book have been made possible by the generous financial support of Rice University and the Ford Foundation.

Spis treści

1. China’s Transition and Feminist Economics Gunseli Berik, Xiao-yuan Dong, and Gale Summerfield  2. Land Management in Rural China and Its Gender Implications Denise Hare, Li Yang and Daniel Englander  3. Gender and Rural Reforms in China: A Case Study of Population Control and Land Rights Policies in Northern Liaoning Junjie Chen and Gale Summerfield  4. Women’s Market Work and Household Status in Rural China: Evidence from Jiangsu and Shandong in the Late 1990s Fiona MacPhail and Xiao-yuan Dong  5. Gender Dynamics and Redundancy in Urban China Jieyu Liu  6. An Ocean Formed from One Hundred Rivers: The Effects of Ethnicity, Gender, Marriage, and Location on Labor Force Participation in Urban China Margaret Maurer-Fazio, James Hughes and Dandan Zhang  7. Gender Equity in Transitional China’s Healthcare Policy Reforms Lanyan Chen and Hilary Standing  8. Foreign Direct Investment and Gendered Wages in Urban China Elissa Braunstein and Mark Brenner  9. Gendering the Dormitory Labor System: Production, Reproduction, and Migrant Labor in South China Pun Ngai  10. Chinese Women after the Accession to the World Trade Organization: A Legal Perspective on Women’s Labor Rights Julien Burda  11. Western Cosmetics in the Gendered Development of Consumer Culture in China Barbara E. Hopkins  12. Meinu Jingji/China’s Beauty Economy: Buying Looks, Shifting Value, and Changing Place Gary Xu and Susan Feiner