Leta Hong Fincher's landmark book Leftover Women shone a light on the resurgence of gender inequality in 21st-century China. Ten years on, women in China continue to experience a dramatic rolling back of rights and gains in the increasingly patriarchal political climate of the Xi Jinping era.
Leftover Women explores the structural discrimination against women and the broader problems with China’s economy, politics, and development that lie behind them. This updated edition includes a new preface exploring developments in China in the 10 years since the book's original publication, including the new "three child policy", the growth in online feminist and LGBTQ activism and the state's increasingly repressive moves against dissent.
Leftover Women
Leta Hong Fincher
An updated edition of Leta Hong Fincher's landmark exposé of the position of women in China and of the state-perpetuated myths about 'leftover' women.Rights Sold
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Book Details
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date: 30-11-2023
Format: Paperback | 198 x 129mm | 256 pagesAbout the Author
Leta Hong Fincher has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Dissent Magazine, Ms. Magazine, BBC, CNN and others. She won the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award for her China reporting and is currently a Research Associate at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University, USA and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. She is the author of Leftover Women (2014) and Betraying Big Brother (2018).
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