Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. ONE Eating Bitterness: The Past and the Pattern 1
4. TWO Speaking Bitterness: Doing Research in the People's Republic of China 28
5. THREE Women Workers in the Cities 56
6. FOUR Women Workers in the Countryside 79
7. FIVE Being and Becoming a Proper Chinese Woman 112
8. SIX Cooked Rice: Marriage in New China 140
9. SEVEN The Setting of Chinese Women's Lives: Family Organization 182
10. EIGHT Sharing a Stove: Urban Domestic Relations 203
11. NINE Sharing a Stove: Rural Domestic Relations 221
12. TEN The Birth Limitation Program: Family vs. State 238
13. ELEVEN The Other Revolution 260
14. Notes 277
15. Index 283