This paper examines some of the reasons for the maintenance and persistence of family
labour farms within agricultural sectors of advanced capitalist countries: some obstacles to …

This first book-length study of gender relations in the Lower Yangzi region during the High
Qing era (c. 1683-1839) challenges enduring late-nineteenth-century perspectives that …

Third wave feminism is a new discourse for understanding and framing gender relations that
arose out of a critique of the second wave. Four major perspectives that share a common …

Investigates the resistance of agriculture to wage labor and other forms of capitalism, finding
a reason in the uncontrollable natural and technical features of the industry. Mann …

Gender and sexuality have been neglected topics in the history of Chinese civilization,
despite the fact that there is a massive amount of historical evidence on the subject. China's …

Recent debates between modernists and postmodernists have shaken the foundations of
modern social science. The epistemological assumptions of long-established procedures for …

Article-at-a-Glance Background No nationally accepted set of quality indicators exists in
obstetrics. A set of 10 outcome measures and three quality improvement tools was …

In 1934 Liu Jihua, a classically trained feminist at Yanjing University, published an article on
the history of the concept of chastity in China. Meticulously documented and lavishly …

The history of China in the nineteenth century usually features men as the dominant figures
in a chronicle of warfare, rebellion, and dynastic decline. This book challenges that model …

" This important volume adds a significant number of new and unique materials for teachers
at all levels of higher education to use in classroom and seminar discussion about the …