Personal Voices Chinese Women In The 1980's Summary

In my mind, Chinese women’s family and society status are lower than men. They are less free and have a great deal of unfair treatment, like, build a marriage. I hope to read some books related to Chinese women in the past few years to know more issue about them. I choose to read "Personal voices: Chinese Women in the 1980's" to do a book report and know something about Chinese’s women. The authors of the book are Emily Honig and Gail Hershatter. Emily Honing is Assistant Professor of History and of Women’s Studies at Yale University, and the author of Sisters and Strangers: Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills. Gail Hershatter is Assistant Professor of History at Williams College, Massachusetts, and the author of The Worker of Tianjin. They have some experience and much knowledge about Chinese women. They let the books to be more credible. Thus, I choose this book to do the book report.
This is because the author wants to through the book to show that the dramatic and far-reaching changes. Also, it has occurred in the lives of Chinese women in the years since the death of Mao and the fall of Cultural Revolution, especially the changes in 1980's. The book chooses to discuss the Chinese women in 1980’s, and not the other time. The reason is that Chinese is opening to the west in the 1980’s also influenced the debate about the roles of women. The situation of women in the 1980’s and the public debate over what their social role should become, was shaped by the past but was not a reenactment of it. In 1980's, ”what is the women role?” to be the old topic, new controversies. Hence, each chapter in this book is devoted to an aspect of women's lives. It has divorce, work, and gender inequality in the book. It has become a subject of controversy or change in the