Chapter Seven Emergent Conjugal Love, Mutual Affection, and Female Marital Power

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Note on Transcription ix
5. Introduction 1
6. PART 1. RURAL RECONFIGURATIONS
7. Chapter One Dutiful Help: Masking Rural Women’s Economic Contributions 39
8. Chapter Two From Care Providers to Financial Burdens: The Changing Role of Sons and Reproductive Choice in Rural Northeast China 59
9. Chapter Three Higher Education, Gender, and Elder Support in Rural Northwest China 74
10. Chapter Four Multiple Mothering and Labor Migration in Rural South China 91
11. PART 2. CLASS, GENDER, AND PATRIARCHY IN URBAN SOCIETY
12. Chapter Five Urbanization and the Transformation of Kinship Practice in Shandong 113
13. Chapter Six Being the Right Woman for “Mr. Right”: Marriage and Household Politics in Present-Day Nanjing 129
14. Chapter Seven Emergent Conjugal Love, Mutual Affection, and Female Marital Power 146
15. Chapter Eight Under Pressure: Lesbian-Gay Contract Marriages and Their Patriarchal Bargains 163
16. Chapter Nine Patriarchal Investments: Expectations of Male Authority and Support in a Poor Beijing Neighborhood 182
17. PART 3: NEW TECHNOLOGIES, NEW INSTITUTIONS
18. Chapter Ten Taking Patriarchy Out of Postpartum Recovery? 201
19. Chapter Eleven Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Sperm Donation, and Biological Kinship: A Recent Chinese Media Debate 219
20. Chapter Twelve Recalibrating Filial Piety: Realigning the State, Family, and Market Interests in China 234
21. Glossary 251
22. References 257
23. List of Contributors 285
24. Index 289