Woman-work : women and the party in revolutionary China

Xiang Jingyu, one of the leading theorists of the early Chinese Communist Party, envisaged an alliance of revolutionary women intellectuals and labouring women to fight for liberation. This book traces the history of that alliance. Frontmatter Abbreviations (page ix) Note on Romanization (page xi) Map of China (page xii) INTRODUCTION (page 1) 1. WOMEN IN THE JIANGXI SOVIET AND THE LIBERATED AREAS (page 21) 2. WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS (page 53) 3. MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY (page 70) 4. WOMEN IN THE COUNTRYSIDE (page 115) 5. WOMEN IN THE TOWNS (page 154) CONCLUSION (page 191) APPENDIX 1. Decisions of the Central Committee Of the Chinese Communist Party on the present orientation of woman-work in all the anti-Japanese base areas (page 198) APPENDIX 2. Decisions of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party on woman-work at present in the countryside of the liberated areas (page 201) APPENDIX 3. 'Working women are a great revolutionary force' (page 210) Bibliography (page 215) Index (page 236) By Delia Davin. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [215]-235.