Table of Contents
State and economy in the making of women's lives: an introduction / Zhao Minghua and Jackie West -- State-society relations and women's political participation / Wang Qi -- Understanding changes in women's status in the context of the recent rural reform / Zhang Heather Xiaoquan -- The role of women in labour migration: a case study in northern China / Song Lina -- Divided gender, divided women: state policy and the labour market / Huang Xiyi -- From weaving stars to bitter flowers: tradition, reform and their implications for women textile workers / Zhao Minghua -- To have a son: the one-child family policy and economic change in rural China / Mu Aiping -- 'Fat pigs' and women's gifts: agnatic and non-agnatic social support in Kaixiangong village / Chang Xiangqun -- Rural privatisation and women's labour: property rights and gender concepts in Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang / Zhang Mei -- Women and the public sphere: education, NGO affiliation and political participation / Shang Xiaoyuan -- The development of women's studies: from the 1980s to the present / Min Dongchao.