Tamara Jacka
Biographic Data
| ID | 143916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tamara Jacka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tamara |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacka |
| SIGNATURE | JACKA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5395-5009 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 208 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Challenges for Chinese Women in the Early Twenty-First Century
Ginkgo Village: A Conversation with Tamara Jacka
Ginkgo Village: Trauma and Transformation (ANU Press, 2024), Tamara Jacka takes readers deep into a village in central-eastern China.In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Ginkgo villagers experienced terrible trauma and far-reaching socioeconomic and political change.At the heart of this book are eight tales that draw on ethnographic and life-history research to re-create Ginkgo Village life and the interactions between the villagers and t…
From Forest Farm to Sawmill: Stories of Labor, Gender, and the Chinese State
Improving Women's Substantive Representation in Community Government: Evidence from Chinese Villages
The premise that increasing the number of women in government improves the representation of women's views and needs continues to motivate efforts in developing countries to raise the proportion of women in political office by means of gender-differentiating ideologies and gender-affirmative actions. This article raises the concern that a focus on boosting women'sdescriptiverepresentation distracts attention from other interventions that potentia…
Translocal family reproduction and agrarian change in China: A New Analytical Framework
This paper advances a new framework for analysing agrarian change in rural China and elsewhere in developing Asia, which centres on translocal family reproduction. The framework highlights the crucial connections between rural families' translocal strategies for meeting reproductive (especially care) needs, their changing aspirations for reproduction, and other aspects of agrarian change, including de-peasantisation, de-agrarianisation and social…
Village Self-Government and Representation in Southwest China
Villages in China are, according to recent law, “self-governed” by villager committees, whose members are elected by villagers and held accountable to villagers and villager representative assemblies. Previous studies have focused on the institutions
Left-behind and Vulnerable? Conceptualising Development and Older Women’s Agency in Rural China
Concern has been growing recently in China about the well-being of children, women and the elderly “left behind” on the farm when family members leave the village in search of waged work. Increasingly, the left-behind are portrayed in academic and policy discourse as a “vulnerable group” of passive dependants, sidelined by modernisation and abandoned by their families. This paper challenges this discourse, arguing that while attention to the well…
Chinese discourses on rurality, gender and development: A Feminist Critique
During the 1980s and 1990s, peasants, especially peasant women, were mostly ignored in elite Chinese discourse on development, or portrayed as a 'backward', 'low quality' group, who put a drag on modernization. But since then, a number of elite discourses
Migration, Householding and the Well-being of Left-behind Women in Rural Ningxia
Among both men and women, migration rates peak at the 20-24 age group and decline thereafter. Overall, however, migrant women tend to be younger than migrant men and, after the age of about 30, female migration rates decline much more rapidly than male rates (Cindy Fan, China on the Move, pp. 76-78)
Women, Gender and Rural Development in China
Contents: Introduction: Conceptualizing Women, Gender and Rural Development in China Tamara Jacka and Sally Sargeson PART I: WOMEN SHAPING DEVELOPMENT 1. Gender, Citizenship and Agency in Land Development Sally Sargeson and Song Yu 2. Labour, Leisure, Gender and Generation: The Organization of 'Wan' and the Notion of 'Gender Equality' in Contemporary Rural China Yuqin Huang 3. Taking the Stage: Rural Kam Women and Contemporary Kam 'Cultural Devel…
Cultivating Citizens: Suzhi (Quality) Discourse in the PRC
In contemporary China, concerns about the suzhi, or “quality,” of individuals, groups, and populations pervade the social imagination and inform a wide spectrum of discourses and debates. Suzhi is of critical importance to contemporary China's booming, globally oriented market economy, to new, “postsocialist” forms of state governance and social control, and to contemporary processes of citizenship. This essay first provides some background discu…
Women's activism, overseas funded participatory development, and governance: A case study from China
Guest Editor's Introduction
Intimate Politics: Marriage, the Market, and State Power in Southeastern China . Sara L. Friedman
Population Governance in the PRC: Political, Historical and Anthropological Perspectives Birth Control in China, 1949-2000: Population Policy and Demographic Development . Thomas Scharping Governing C…
Gender in Motion: Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China . Bryna Goodman , Wendy Larson
Approaches to Women and Development in Rural China
In this paper I analyze the language and concepts framing approaches taken by the Chinese women's movement to women and rural development. Until the late 1990s the language adopted by Chinese women's organizations concerned with rural development was quite different from that of development agencies elsewhere, but since that time it has become increasingly similar. In this paper I ask: to what extent did the earlier language of Chinese women's de…
Made in China. Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace – Pun Ngai
Making Place: State Projects, Globalisation and Local Responses in China
Making Place: State Projects, Globalisation and Local Responses in China . Stephan Feuchtwang, ed. London: University College London Press, 2004. 214 pp
On the Move: Women and Rural-to-Urban Migration in Contemporary China
This book explores the impact of migration on the identities, values, worldviews, and social positions of migrant women in contemporary China based on original fieldwork as well as in-depth research in multiple regions of China.
Chinese Women Organizing: Cadres, Feminists, Muslims, Queers . Ping-Chun Hsiung , Maria Jaschok , Cecilia Milwertz , Red Chan
Chinese Women Speak . Denyse Verschuur-Basse
Women's Work in Rural China: Change and Continuity in an Era of Reform
Working Sisters Answer Back: The Representation and Self-Representation of Women in China's Floating Population
Women's Work in Rural China: Change and Continuity in an Era of Reform
Since 1978, reform policies introduced in rural China have had a profound impact on women's work and gender divisions of labour. This book provides detailed information on shifts in women's work patterns. It explains how and why these shifts have come about, and how they relate to women's position in society. While other aspects of reform in rural China have been analysed extensively, this is one of very few, and to date the most comprehensive st…
Cultivating Citizens: Suzhi (Quality) Discourse in the PRC
In contemporary China, concerns about the suzhi, or “quality,” of individuals, groups, and populations pervade the social imagination and inform a wide spectrum of discourses and debates. Suzhi is of critical importance to contemporary China's booming, globally oriented market economy, to new, “postsocialist” forms of state governance and social control, and to contemporary processes of citizenship. This essay first provides some background discu…
Translocal family reproduction and agrarian change in China: A New Analytical Framework
This paper advances a new framework for analysing agrarian change in rural China and elsewhere in developing Asia, which centres on translocal family reproduction. The framework highlights the crucial connections between rural families' translocal strategies for meeting reproductive (especially care) needs, their changing aspirations for reproduction, and other aspects of agrarian change, including de-peasantisation, de-agrarianisation and social…
Migration, Householding and the Well-being of Left-behind Women in Rural Ningxia
Among both men and women, migration rates peak at the 20-24 age group and decline thereafter. Overall, however, migrant women tend to be younger than migrant men and, after the age of about 30, female migration rates decline much more rapidly than male rates (Cindy Fan, China on the Move, pp. 76-78)
Chinese discourses on rurality, gender and development: A Feminist Critique
During the 1980s and 1990s, peasants, especially peasant women, were mostly ignored in elite Chinese discourse on development, or portrayed as a 'backward', 'low quality' group, who put a drag on modernization. But since then, a number of elite discourses
Left-behind and Vulnerable? Conceptualising Development and Older Women’s Agency in Rural China
Concern has been growing recently in China about the well-being of children, women and the elderly “left behind” on the farm when family members leave the village in search of waged work. Increasingly, the left-behind are portrayed in academic and policy discourse as a “vulnerable group” of passive dependants, sidelined by modernisation and abandoned by their families. This paper challenges this discourse, arguing that while attention to the well…
Village Self-Government and Representation in Southwest China
Villages in China are, according to recent law, “self-governed” by villager committees, whose members are elected by villagers and held accountable to villagers and villager representative assemblies. Previous studies have focused on the institutions
Working Sisters Answer Back: The Representation and Self-Representation of Women in China's Floating Population
Women's activism, overseas funded participatory development, and governance: A case study from China
Approaches to Women and Development in Rural China
In this paper I analyze the language and concepts framing approaches taken by the Chinese women's movement to women and rural development. Until the late 1990s the language adopted by Chinese women's organizations concerned with rural development was quite different from that of development agencies elsewhere, but since that time it has become increasingly similar. In this paper I ask: to what extent did the earlier language of Chinese women's de…
Improving Women's Substantive Representation in Community Government: Evidence from Chinese Villages
The premise that increasing the number of women in government improves the representation of women's views and needs continues to motivate efforts in developing countries to raise the proportion of women in political office by means of gender-differentiating ideologies and gender-affirmative actions. This article raises the concern that a focus on boosting women'sdescriptiverepresentation distracts attention from other interventions that potentia…
Population Governance in the PRC: Political, Historical and Anthropological Perspectives Birth Control in China, 1949-2000: Population Policy and Demographic Development . Thomas Scharping Governing C…
Teaching Chinese politics
June Teufel Dreyer. China's Political System. Modernization and Tradition. Hampshire and London: Macmillan, 1993. 448 pp. A$34.20, paper. Colin Mackerras, Pradeep Taneja and Graham Young. China Since 1978. Reform, Modernisation and ‘Socialism with Chinese Characteristics’. New York: St. Martin's Press, and Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1994. 274 pp. Select bibliography, index. Npg, paper. Bill Brugger and Stephen Reglar. Politics, Economy and Soci…
Countering voices
Back to the Wok: Women and Employment in Chinese Industry in the 1980s
Asian studies association of Australia 8th biennial conference, Women's caucus day
Countering voices
From Heaven to Earth: Images and Experiences of Development in China. Elisabeth Croll
Film and video reviews
Teaching Chinese politics
June Teufel Dreyer. China's Political System. Modernization and Tradition. Hampshire and London: Macmillan, 1993. 448 pp. A$34.20, paper. Colin Mackerras, Pradeep Taneja and Graham Young. China Since 1978. Reform, Modernisation and ‘Socialism with Chinese Characteristics’. New York: St. Martin's Press, and Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1994. 274 pp. Select bibliography, index. Npg, paper. Bill Brugger and Stephen Reglar. Politics, Economy and Soci…
Women's Work in Rural China: Change and Continuity in an Era of Reform
Since 1978, reform policies introduced in rural China have had a profound impact on women's work and gender divisions of labour. This book provides detailed information on shifts in women's work patterns. It explains how and why these shifts have come about, and how they relate to women's position in society. While other aspects of reform in rural China have been analysed extensively, this is one of very few, and to date the most comprehensive st…
Gender & Power in Rural North China. Ellen R. Judd
Chinese Women Speak . Denyse Verschuur-Basse
Women's Work in Rural China: Change and Continuity in an Era of Reform
Working Sisters Answer Back: The Representation and Self-Representation of Women in China's Floating Population
Women's Work in Rural China: Change and Continuity in an Era of Reform
Since 1978, reform policies introduced in rural China have had a profound impact on women's work and gender divisions of labour. This book provides detailed information on shifts in women's work patterns. It explains how and why these shifts have come about, and how they relate to women's position in society. While other aspects of reform in rural China have been analysed extensively, this is one of very few, and to date the most comprehensive st…
Chinese Women Organizing: Cadres, Feminists, Muslims, Queers . Ping-Chun Hsiung , Maria Jaschok , Cecilia Milwertz , Red Chan
On the Move: Women and Rural-to-Urban Migration in Contemporary China
This book explores the impact of migration on the identities, values, worldviews, and social positions of migrant women in contemporary China based on original fieldwork as well as in-depth research in multiple regions of China.
Making Place: State Projects, Globalisation and Local Responses in China
Making Place: State Projects, Globalisation and Local Responses in China . Stephan Feuchtwang, ed. London: University College London Press, 2004. 214 pp
Gender in Motion: Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China . Bryna Goodman , Wendy Larson
Approaches to Women and Development in Rural China
In this paper I analyze the language and concepts framing approaches taken by the Chinese women's movement to women and rural development. Until the late 1990s the language adopted by Chinese women's organizations concerned with rural development was quite different from that of development agencies elsewhere, but since that time it has become increasingly similar. In this paper I ask: to what extent did the earlier language of Chinese women's de…
Made in China. Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace – Pun Ngai
Intimate Politics: Marriage, the Market, and State Power in Southeastern China . Sara L. Friedman
Population Governance in the PRC: Political, Historical and Anthropological Perspectives Birth Control in China, 1949-2000: Population Policy and Demographic Development . Thomas Scharping Governing C…
Guest Editor's Introduction
Cultivating Citizens: Suzhi (Quality) Discourse in the PRC
In contemporary China, concerns about the suzhi, or “quality,” of individuals, groups, and populations pervade the social imagination and inform a wide spectrum of discourses and debates. Suzhi is of critical importance to contemporary China's booming, globally oriented market economy, to new, “postsocialist” forms of state governance and social control, and to contemporary processes of citizenship. This essay first provides some background discu…
Women's activism, overseas funded participatory development, and governance: A case study from China
Women, Gender and Rural Development in China
Contents: Introduction: Conceptualizing Women, Gender and Rural Development in China Tamara Jacka and Sally Sargeson PART I: WOMEN SHAPING DEVELOPMENT 1. Gender, Citizenship and Agency in Land Development Sally Sargeson and Song Yu 2. Labour, Leisure, Gender and Generation: The Organization of 'Wan' and the Notion of 'Gender Equality' in Contemporary Rural China Yuqin Huang 3. Taking the Stage: Rural Kam Women and Contemporary Kam 'Cultural Devel…
Migration, Householding and the Well-being of Left-behind Women in Rural Ningxia
Among both men and women, migration rates peak at the 20-24 age group and decline thereafter. Overall, however, migrant women tend to be younger than migrant men and, after the age of about 30, female migration rates decline much more rapidly than male rates (Cindy Fan, China on the Move, pp. 76-78)
Political science (28 works) · Sociology (26 works) · China (25 works) · Law (21 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (17 works) · Law (17 works) · Media studies (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Economics (8 works)