Chinese Women and Rural Development: Sixty Years of Change in Lu Village, Yunnan. By Laurel Bossen. [Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2002. 391 pp. Hard cover $80.00, ISBN 0-7425-1107-3; paperback $29.95, ISBN 0-7425-1108-1.]

2003 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 214-251
Author(s):  
Elisabeth J. Croll
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Yunnan Province ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Everyday Practice ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
Hard Cover

This study constitutes a major contribution to our understanding of women, gender and rural development within and beyond China. Examining 60 years of economic, political and social change in one village in Yunnan province, this book has both depth and breadth. Research in Lu village, also the site of Fei Xiao-tong's very fine field study conducted in the 1940s and reported in Earthbound China, enables the author to examine how larger concepts and abstractions such as Chinese culture, communist planning and market-driven reforms shape and are shaped by gender definitions and relations in everyday practice.

Chinese Women Organizing: Cadres, Feminists, Muslims, Queers. Edited by Ping-Chun Hsiung, Maria Jaschok and Cecilia Milwertz. [Oxford and New York: Berg, 2001. xxvi+332pp. Hard cover £42.99, $68.00, ISBN 185973-536-3; paperback £14.99, $23.50, ISBN 185973-541-X.]

2003 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 834-836
Author(s):  
Robert Benewick
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Striking Feature ◽  
Theoretical Issues ◽  
Ongoing Project ◽  
Hard Cover

The most striking feature of this important project is the excitement that the book is able to stimulate about the theoretical issues involved, about what has been achieved and about what remains to be done. Whether it is possible to describe a women's movement in China is almost beside the point for the ongoing project is so impressive.

First be a woman? rural development, social change and women farmers’ lives in Thessaly-Greece

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chrysanthi Charatsari ◽  
Afroditi Papadaki-Klavdianou
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Women Farmers

Environmentalism Unbound: Exploring New Pathways for Change By Robert Gottlieb. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001. 408p. $29.95.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 613-613 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Schlosberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Pollution Prevention ◽  
Everyday Practice ◽  
Environmental Discourse ◽  
Movement Strategies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Common Vision

The key argument of Robert Gottlieb's Environmentalism Unbound is that an integrated focus on pollution prevention and environmental justice can lay the groundwork for fundamental environmental and social change (p. xiii). The aim is to develop a common vision and a more “embracing language” for environmentalism that is more broadly appealing than a mainstream focus on nature and species and more broadly applicable to a range of environmental and social issues. Such an expanded environmental discourse—integrating the workplace, the social, and the ecological—would make for an unbounded and more successful environmentalism. This is another wonderful offering by Gottlieb, right up there with his Forcing the Spring (1993). The recognition of diverse discourses of environmentalism and social justice is a challenge to movement strategies, and Gottlieb takes on the issue with a focus on both a broad vision and everyday practice.

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