List of figures vii
List of tables viii
List of contributors ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction: conceptualizing women, gender and rural development in China 1
Tamara Jacka
Sally Sargeson
PART I WOMEN SHAPING DEVELOPMENT
1 Gender, citizenship and agency in land development 25
Sally Sargeson
Song Yu
2 Labour, leisure, gender and generation: the organization of `wan' and the notion of `gender equality' in contemporary rural China 49
Yuqin Huang
3 Taking the stage: rural Kam women and contemporary Kam `cultural development' 71
Catherine Ingram
Wu Jialing
Wu Meifang
Wu Meixiang
Wu Pinxian
Wu Xuegui
PART II TANGLED TIES: POLICIES, INSTITUTIONS AND DISCOURSES
4 Reproduction and real property in rural China: three decades of development and discrimination 97
Laurel Bossen
5 `Good citizens prefer daughters': gender, rurality and the Care for Girls Campaign 124
Lisa Eklund
6 Challenging the gendered dimensions of schooling: the state, NGOs and transnational alliances 143
Heidi Ross
PART III THE GLOBAL, THE LOCAL AND THE PROJECT
7 Developing Yunnan's rural and ethnic minority women: a development practitioner's self-reflections 171
Zhao Jie
8 Engendering the local: globalization, development and the `empowerment' of Chinese rural women 190
Sharon R. Wesoky
9 Myths and realities: gender and participation in a donor-aided project in northern China 208
Yang Lichao
References 229
Index 261
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