Promising and Contested Fields: Women's Studies and Sociology of Women/Gender in Contemporary China

Gender and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 161-188

  Chow, Esther Ngan Ling ^a,d   Zhang, Naihua ^b   Wang, Jinling ^c,e,f  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Zhejiang Academy of Social Sciences   (China)

^d American University   (United States)

^e Institute of Sociology   (China)

^f Women's Studies Program   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese Marxism; Feminism; Gender studies; Sociology of women; Women's studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842424254     PISSN: 08912432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891243203261128     Document Type: Review

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