CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 267Historical Gender and Feminism StudiesGender and Feminist StudiesChina's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance

Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980’s

Honig, Emily, Hershatter, Gail·1988·Stanford University Press eBooks
DOI 10.1515/9780804766319
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

Dramatic and far-reaching changes have occurred in the lives of Chinese women in the years since the death of Mao and the fall of the Gang of Four During the decade of the Cultural Revolution, attention to personal life was regarded as 'bourgeois'; in the post-Mao decade, abrupt turns in public policy made discussion of personal life imperative, and nowhere has this been more evident than in the debate about the role of women in Chinese society. This book is based on extensive personal viewing of urban women and study of contemporary literature and articles in the periodical press that touched on the problems of rural women. It is not only about the changes in women's lives but also about the excitement, confusion, and anxieties that Chinese women express as they contemplate the future of their society and their own place in it. Each chapter is devoted to one aspect of women's Lives: girlhood, adornment and sexuality, courtship, marriage, family relations, divorce, work, violence against women, and gender inequality. Giving a personal dimension to the issues discussed, the chapters close with a rich sampling of excerpts from the newly thriving women's press and other contemporary publications. Although many women in China still suffer discrimination in working life and mistreatment in the family, they can now raise questions that would have been unthinkable even ten years ago. Most notably, they can and do use the press to voice complaints, expose injustices, seek advice, and support or deplore the social changes of the 1980's.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1515/9780804766319

Cites

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Economic reforms strengthened and in some cases reconstructed a sexual division of labour which succeeded in keeping urban women in a transient, lower-paid, and subordinate position in the workforce.

    “As a result, economic reforms strengthened and in some cases reconstructed a sexual division of labour which succeeded in 'keeping urban women in a transient, lower-paid, and subordinate position in the workforce'(Honig and Hershatter 1988, p. 321).”

    From Patriarchal capitalism with Chinese characteristics: gendered discourse of 'Double Eleven' shopping festival (2017) · cites this paper as Honig and Hershatter 1988, p. 321

  • The gender sameness that was part of Maoist state feminism was widely rejected after the Cultural Revolution.

    “First, as many historical works on Chinese women have pointed out (e.g. Croll 1978, 1995, Honig and Hershatter 1988, Evans 1997, 2008a, 2008b, Zhong 2006), the gender sameness that was part of Maoist state feminism was widely rejected after the Cultural Revolution.”

    From Patriarchal capitalism with Chinese characteristics: gendered discourse of 'Double Eleven' shopping festival (2017) · cites this paper as Honig and Hershatter 1988

  • Recent studies have argued that post-Mao economic reforms have intensified discrimination against women.

    “Focusing on biases against older women and elite women, recent studies have argued that post-Mao economic reforms have intensified discrimination against women (Croll 1995;Honig and Hershatter 1988;Hooper 1998;Kerr et al. 1996;Summerfield 1994).”

    From China's One-Child Policy and the Empowerment of Urban Daughters (2002) · cites this paper as Honig and Hershatter 1988

Cites

Still being checked.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Related

Authors
Honig, E., & Hershatter, G.
ORCID
Hershatter, Gail
Venue
Stanford University Press eBooks
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Published
1988-06-01
DOI
10.1515/9780804766319
OpenAlex
W4255746889
Cited by
267
References
0
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 15 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 15
FWCI
7.79
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Stanford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
Keywords
Chinese women, women's lives, post-Mao China, gender inequality, women's press, rural women, girlhood, sexuality, courtship, marriage, divorce, violence against women, women's employment, family relationships, gender discrimination, women's voices

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review