How the Feminist Five and the rise of China’s feminist movement are challenging China's authoritarian government
LETA HONG FINCHER is a journalist who has written for New York Times, The Guardian, Ms. Magazine, BBC and CNN, and is the author of Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China.
[Praise for Leftover Women] A chilling account of the pressures on
Chinese strivers ... One hopes that Leftover Women will soon be
translated into Chinese, as it is likely to resonate deeply with
urban educated women. It seems the party has forgotten the Mao-era
dictum: ‘Women Hold Up Half the Sky’
*New York Times*
[Praise for Leftover Women]Leftover Women should carry a health
warning: this book will severely raise your blood pressure. Leta
Hong Fincher’s subject - researched through statistical analysis,
sociological surveys and extensive first-hand interviewing - is the
toxic vitality of sexism in China today.
*Guardian*
[Praise for Leftover Women] Important and interesting...gender
relations, in many ways so much more advanced in China than in
India, are going backwards as traditions that were seemingly
flattened by Mao re-emerge.
*Financial Times*
[Praise for Leftover Women] In Leftover Women, Leta Hong Fincher
convincingly argues that an orchestrated state campaign co-opts
women to marry and buy marital homes, often to the detriment of
their careers and financial independence.
*Wall Street Journal*
[Praise for Leftover Women] A compelling piece of original
research...Leta Hong Fincher, an American
journalist-turned-academic, argues that the same party that pushed
through the elevation of women’s status in the 1950s is now trying
to engineer their return to the kitchen.
*Economist*
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