Laurel Bossen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 77832 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Laurel Bossen |
| NOMBRES | Laurel |
| APELLIDO | Bossen |
| FIRMA | BOSSEN L |
| AFILIACIONES | McGill University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 82 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1975 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Bound Feet, Young Hands
Bound Feet, Young Hands
This book examines the once widespread practice of footbinding from the perspective of China’s gendered labor system. In contrast to the common belief that footbinding was motivated by the quest for beauty and was practiced primarily to attract a husband, this book emphasizes that footbinding was extremely widespread, not limited to the elite, and must be understood in the context of girls’ and women’s labor. In preindustrial China, rural women a…
Marriage Mobility and Footbinding in Pre-1949 Rural China
We provide evidence contrary to long-standing general expectations that before 1949 most Chinese women married up the social hierarchy and that footbinding facilitated this hypergamy. In our sample of 7,314 rural women living in Sichuan, Northern, Central, and Southwestern China in the first half of the twentieth century, two-thirds of women did not marry up. In fact, 22 percent of all women, across regions, married down. In most regions, more wo…
Feet and Fabrication
The early twentieth-century transformations of rural Chinese women’s work have received relatively little direct attention. By contrast, the former custom of footbinding continues to fascinate and is often used to illustrate or contest theories about Chinese women’s status. Arguing that for rural women at least, footbinding needs to be understood in relation to rural economic conditions, the authors focus on changes in textile production and in f…
Understanding Contemporary China
Employment of Women in Chinese Cultures
Village to Distant Village
Recently much attention has focused on the rising tide of rural to urban migration in China. Some of this migration is inter-provincial, and some is merely a shift to the nearest big town or city. Much less is known about the effects of long-distance marriage between rural areas. This type of migration does not entail a shift to urban household registration, nor does it involve adaptation to city living. Distant rural migration is a phenomenon th…
New Directions for Maya Labor
Forty Million Missing Girls
In the study of China's rural development, economists and political scientists have frequently examined land policy, while demographers, sociologists and anthropologists look at family planning. Yet in real life the two domains are closely related as households attempt to match and manage their land and labor resources. This article brings together questions about land, gender and family planning in relation to both policy and practice. It draws …
Footbinding
Film Review / Revue de FilmFootbinding: Search for the Three Inch Golden Lotus. Directed and produced by Yue-Qing Yang. 47:45 minutes. 2004. ©EastWest Film Enterprise. Moving Images Distribution, 402 West Fender Street, Ste 606, Vancouver, BC V6B 1T6, telephone: (604) 684-3014 or (800) 684-3014, url: www.movingimages.caFootbinding was practised in China for centuries until it was finally discontinued in the first half of the 20th century. In Chin…
Visual Reviews
The Amahs of Hong Kong . Anastasia Edwards, director. DAERRE Productions with TVE International, producers. 12 min. Color. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films, 1995
Cadres and Kin
Cadres and Kin: Making. Socialist Village in West China, 1921-1991. Gregory A. Ruf. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xi. 249 pp., photographs, appendix, notes, work cited, index
Understanding Contemporary China
Unmaking the Chinese Peasantry–Releasing Collected Energy
Changing Land Tenure System in China
Toward a Theory of Marriage
The economic arrangements that surround marriage are an area of enduring interest for economic anthropologists and one of re-examination for women's studies. The formation of new households and family ties based on a sexual division of labor and on long-term investment in a new generation of laborers involves major economic shifts for individual women and men, and for society as a whole. In many societies, marriage entails rather explicit group n…
The Redivision of Labour
Heritage of Conquest
The Redivision of Labor
The Redivision of Labor
Daughters of Copper Woman. Anne Cameron
Plantations and Labor Force Discrimination in Guatemala
The Symbolism of Subordination
Women in Modernizing Societies1
It is commonly assumed that modernization generally brings an increase in sexual equality. This paper examines the alternative possibility, that modernization favors an inferior status for women. Focusing on economic variables as a basis for comparison, an examination of modern changes in various societies in which women's traditional position has been relatively strong indicates a deterioration in women's position relative to men
Women in Modernizing Societies1
It is commonly assumed that modernization generally brings an increase in sexual equality. This paper examines the alternative possibility, that modernization favors an inferior status for women. Focusing on economic variables as a basis for comparison, an examination of modern changes in various societies in which women's traditional position has been relatively strong indicates a deterioration in women's position relative to men
Heritage of Conquest
Plantations and Labor Force Discrimination in Guatemala
Village to Distant Village
Recently much attention has focused on the rising tide of rural to urban migration in China. Some of this migration is inter-provincial, and some is merely a shift to the nearest big town or city. Much less is known about the effects of long-distance marriage between rural areas. This type of migration does not entail a shift to urban household registration, nor does it involve adaptation to city living. Distant rural migration is a phenomenon th…
Toward a Theory of Marriage
The economic arrangements that surround marriage are an area of enduring interest for economic anthropologists and one of re-examination for women's studies. The formation of new households and family ties based on a sexual division of labor and on long-term investment in a new generation of laborers involves major economic shifts for individual women and men, and for society as a whole. In many societies, marriage entails rather explicit group n…
Feet and Fabrication
The early twentieth-century transformations of rural Chinese women’s work have received relatively little direct attention. By contrast, the former custom of footbinding continues to fascinate and is often used to illustrate or contest theories about Chinese women’s status. Arguing that for rural women at least, footbinding needs to be understood in relation to rural economic conditions, the authors focus on changes in textile production and in f…
The Redivision of Labor
Marriage Mobility and Footbinding in Pre-1949 Rural China
We provide evidence contrary to long-standing general expectations that before 1949 most Chinese women married up the social hierarchy and that footbinding facilitated this hypergamy. In our sample of 7,314 rural women living in Sichuan, Northern, Central, and Southwestern China in the first half of the twentieth century, two-thirds of women did not marry up. In fact, 22 percent of all women, across regions, married down. In most regions, more wo…
Cadres and Kin
Cadres and Kin: Making. Socialist Village in West China, 1921-1991. Gregory A. Ruf. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xi. 249 pp., photographs, appendix, notes, work cited, index
Changing Land Tenure System in China
The Redivision of Labour
Women in Modernizing Societies1
It is commonly assumed that modernization generally brings an increase in sexual equality. This paper examines the alternative possibility, that modernization favors an inferior status for women. Focusing on economic variables as a basis for comparison, an examination of modern changes in various societies in which women's traditional position has been relatively strong indicates a deterioration in women's position relative to men
The Symbolism of Subordination
Plantations and Labor Force Discrimination in Guatemala
Daughters of Copper Woman. Anne Cameron
The Redivision of Labor
Heritage of Conquest
The Redivision of Labor
The Redivision of Labour
Toward a Theory of Marriage
The economic arrangements that surround marriage are an area of enduring interest for economic anthropologists and one of re-examination for women's studies. The formation of new households and family ties based on a sexual division of labor and on long-term investment in a new generation of laborers involves major economic shifts for individual women and men, and for society as a whole. In many societies, marriage entails rather explicit group n…
Changing Land Tenure System in China
Unmaking the Chinese Peasantry–Releasing Collected Energy
Understanding Contemporary China
Cadres and Kin
Cadres and Kin: Making. Socialist Village in West China, 1921-1991. Gregory A. Ruf. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. xi. 249 pp., photographs, appendix, notes, work cited, index
Visual Reviews
The Amahs of Hong Kong . Anastasia Edwards, director. DAERRE Productions with TVE International, producers. 12 min. Color. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films, 1995
Footbinding
Film Review / Revue de FilmFootbinding: Search for the Three Inch Golden Lotus. Directed and produced by Yue-Qing Yang. 47:45 minutes. 2004. ©EastWest Film Enterprise. Moving Images Distribution, 402 West Fender Street, Ste 606, Vancouver, BC V6B 1T6, telephone: (604) 684-3014 or (800) 684-3014, url: www.movingimages.caFootbinding was practised in China for centuries until it was finally discontinued in the first half of the 20th century. In Chin…
New Directions for Maya Labor
Forty Million Missing Girls
In the study of China's rural development, economists and political scientists have frequently examined land policy, while demographers, sociologists and anthropologists look at family planning. Yet in real life the two domains are closely related as households attempt to match and manage their land and labor resources. This article brings together questions about land, gender and family planning in relation to both policy and practice. It draws …
Village to Distant Village
Recently much attention has focused on the rising tide of rural to urban migration in China. Some of this migration is inter-provincial, and some is merely a shift to the nearest big town or city. Much less is known about the effects of long-distance marriage between rural areas. This type of migration does not entail a shift to urban household registration, nor does it involve adaptation to city living. Distant rural migration is a phenomenon th…
Understanding Contemporary China
Employment of Women in Chinese Cultures
Feet and Fabrication
The early twentieth-century transformations of rural Chinese women’s work have received relatively little direct attention. By contrast, the former custom of footbinding continues to fascinate and is often used to illustrate or contest theories about Chinese women’s status. Arguing that for rural women at least, footbinding needs to be understood in relation to rural economic conditions, the authors focus on changes in textile production and in f…
Marriage Mobility and Footbinding in Pre-1949 Rural China
We provide evidence contrary to long-standing general expectations that before 1949 most Chinese women married up the social hierarchy and that footbinding facilitated this hypergamy. In our sample of 7,314 rural women living in Sichuan, Northern, Central, and Southwestern China in the first half of the twentieth century, two-thirds of women did not marry up. In fact, 22 percent of all women, across regions, married down. In most regions, more wo…
Bound Feet, Young Hands
Bound Feet, Young Hands
This book examines the once widespread practice of footbinding from the perspective of China’s gendered labor system. In contrast to the common belief that footbinding was motivated by the quest for beauty and was practiced primarily to attract a husband, this book emphasizes that footbinding was extremely widespread, not limited to the elite, and must be understood in the context of girls’ and women’s labor. In preindustrial China, rural women a…
Political science (12 obras) · Sociology (12 obras) · Geography (11 obras) · Economics (10 obras) · China (9 obras) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (7 obras) · History (7 obras) · Archaeology (5 obras) · Demographic economics (5 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras)