Islam, Family Life, and Gender Inequality in Urban China

Zusatztext "Just about everywhere in this book! I found myself sharing the author's judgements and admiring the way he has reached them. So I regard this as a timely and excellent book! which covers a range of important and controversial topics. It is well written and structured. It contributes to our understanding of theory as well as gender among China's minorities. I definitely recommend it enthusiastically to students and scholars of China's ethnic minorities! Islam and gender; and I believe it deserves attention also among a more generalist readership." - Colin Mackerras! Griffith University! Australia; China Information 2012 26: 392 Informationen zum Autor Xiaowei Zang is Professor and Head of the School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield! UK. He is the author of Children of the Cultural Revolution (2000)! Elite Dualism and Leadership Selection in China (2004)! and Ethnicity and Urban Life in China (2007). He studies ethnicity! inequality! and elite politics in China. Zusammenfassung This book investigates the ways in which Islam affects family matters, and especially the status of women, and the ways in which family, religion and society interrelate among Uyghurs in China. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Between Islamic Affiliation and Gender Inequality 2. Historical Contexts and Research Design 3. A Hard Choice: To Work or Not to Work? 4. Why Do Uyghur Men Earn More than Uyghur Women? 5. Who Does Household Chores? 6. Who Manages the Household? 7. Who's the Boss? 8. All in the Family

"Just about everywhere in this book, I found myself sharing the author's judgements and admiring the way he has reached them. So I regard this as a timely and excellent book, which covers a range of important and controversial topics. It is well written and structured. It contributes to our understanding of theory as well as gender among China's minorities. I definitely recommend it enthusiastically to students and scholars of China's ethnic minorities, Islam and gender; and I believe it deserves attention also among a more generalist readership." - Colin Mackerras, Griffith University, Australia; China Information 2012 26: 392

Auteur
Xiaowei Zang is Professor and Head of the School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is the author of Children of the Cultural Revolution (2000), Elite Dualism and Leadership Selection in China (2004), and Ethnicity and Urban Life in China (2007). He studies ethnicity, inequality, and elite politics in China.

Texte du rabat

Ethnicity is a major concern in research on contemporary China partly because the religious beliefs and ways of life of ethnic minority groups are strikingly different from those of Han Chinese. However, there is little analysis of how religious affiliation affects social relations in China. This book investigates the ways in which Islam affects family matters, and especially the status of women, and the ways in which family, religion and society interrelate among minorities in China.

Résumé
This book investigates the ways in which Islam affects family matters, and especially the status of women, and the ways in which family, religion and society interrelate among Uyghurs in China.

Contenu

1. Between Islamic Affiliation and Gender Inequality 2. Historical Contexts and Research Design 3. A Hard Choice: To Work or Not to Work? 4. Why Do Uyghur Men Earn More than Uyghur Women? 5. Who Does Household Chores? 6. Who Manages the Household? 7. Who's the Boss? 8. All in the Family