Marriage, gender, and sex in a contemporary Chinese village

Abstract

1. Theoretical Framework: Familism, Women's Liberation, and Autonomy 2. Baixiao Village: Past and Present Part I. Finding a Partner, Love, and Marriage 3. Marriage, Familism, and Autonomy 4. The Story of Uncle Qiu: The Dictates of the Parents, the Words of the Matchmaker 5. The Story of Zhichao: The Transition from Tradition to Modernity 6. The Story of Qiming: Marriage in the 1990s Part II. Tradition, Women, and the Interpretation of the Self 7. Review of the Research into Women in Chinese Villages 8. Wang Guizhen: Growing up Under the Reform and Opening-up Policy 9. A Female's Need for Fulfillment in the Eyes of Traditional Women Part III. Sex and Sex Trade Under the Reform and Opening-up Policy 10. Familial Culture, Gender Relationship, and Sexual Indulgence 11. Sex, Sex Trade, and Extra-marital Relationship in the Eyes of Men 12. Wealth, Materialism, and the Feminine Viewpoint 13. The Paradox of the Development in Baixiao Village 14. Reflections on Methodology Part IV. Revisit: Baixiao Village at the Turn of the Century 15. Baixiao Village at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century 16. Rural Political Reform: Baixiao Village Committee Election