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Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese CompaniesMarriage and Family

Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies: Marriage and Family [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.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese CompaniesMarriage and Family

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017. The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988.
ISBN
978-1-137-50574-3
Pages
123 –141
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-50575-0_8
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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.]

Published: Nov 9, 2016

Keywords: Single Woman; Work Unit; Mate Selection; Private Sphere; Housing Allowance

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