Description:Unique in its intergenerational approach to understanding motherhood in China, this book sets out to study Chinese mothers' experiences in childrearing, emphasizing that gender is not immutable and that motherhood is not isolated from other social domains.The author adopts an historical and sociological design with a case study approach to investigate three living generations of women from twelve families of varied social-economic backgrounds in China. By comparing three aspects of these mothers' lives, namely the growing-up experiences, mothering experiences, and intergenerational transmission between mothers and daughters, this research provides an invaluable opportunity to 'observe' how changing structural elements shaped mothers varied subjectivities similarly or differently. It also addresses the continuities of the women's experiences, highlighting the gendered and devalued roles in childcare across three generations, which reflects the complex dynamic relationship between women's agency and the social structures.This is an essential read for researchers, students, professionals and practitioners in the fields of sociology of families, childhood and education, gender studies, motherhood/parenthood studies, narrative studies, social policy and development studies.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Shifting Traditions of Childrearing in China: Narratives from Three Generations of Women (China Perspectives). To get started finding Shifting Traditions of Childrearing in China: Narratives from Three Generations of Women (China Perspectives), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Shifting Traditions of Childrearing in China: Narratives from Three Generations of Women (China Perspectives)
Description: Unique in its intergenerational approach to understanding motherhood in China, this book sets out to study Chinese mothers' experiences in childrearing, emphasizing that gender is not immutable and that motherhood is not isolated from other social domains.The author adopts an historical and sociological design with a case study approach to investigate three living generations of women from twelve families of varied social-economic backgrounds in China. By comparing three aspects of these mothers' lives, namely the growing-up experiences, mothering experiences, and intergenerational transmission between mothers and daughters, this research provides an invaluable opportunity to 'observe' how changing structural elements shaped mothers varied subjectivities similarly or differently. It also addresses the continuities of the women's experiences, highlighting the gendered and devalued roles in childcare across three generations, which reflects the complex dynamic relationship between women's agency and the social structures.This is an essential read for researchers, students, professionals and practitioners in the fields of sociology of families, childhood and education, gender studies, motherhood/parenthood studies, narrative studies, social policy and development studies.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Shifting Traditions of Childrearing in China: Narratives from Three Generations of Women (China Perspectives). To get started finding Shifting Traditions of Childrearing in China: Narratives from Three Generations of Women (China Perspectives), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.