Marriage and Family

Liu Jieyu
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Liu Jieyu: SOAS University of London

Chapter Chapter 8 in Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies, 2017, pp 123-141 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter focuses on women’s experiences and expectations of marriage and family. Enabled by changing practices relating to housing allocation, the re-constitution of the private sphere away from the workplace has facilitated women’s enactment of power play in marriage and family. For ‘left-over’ single women, despite being ridiculed at work and pressurized to marry by their parents, these women actively delayed marriage to preserve agency and autonomy in their mate selection. For married women, by reclaiming the traditional divide between inside and outside, they wielded considerable interpersonal power and prevailed over their husbands in decision making at home and in general family life, albeit at the exploitation of senior generations of women who took on housework and childcare.

Keywords: Single Woman; Work Unit; Mate Selection; Private Sphere; Housing Allowance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-50575-0_8

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