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Distinctive female dress styles, gender divisions of labor, and powerful same-sex networks have long distinguished villages in this coastal region of southeastern China from other rural Han communities. Intimate Politics explores these practices that have constituted eastern Hui'an residents, women in particular, as an anomaly among rural Han.

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In her ethnographic study of rural coastal women in Fujian province, anthropologist Friedman documents in excellent detail the diverse impacts of the modernizing Chinese state on women who are symbolically represented in wider Chinese society as 'the Hui'an woman.' -- E. P. Lozada * Choice *

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      Publisher: Harvard University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/06/2006
      ISBN13: 9780674021280, 978-0674021280
      ISBN10: 0674021282

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Distinctive female dress styles, gender divisions of labor, and powerful same-sex networks have long distinguished villages in this coastal region of southeastern China from other rural Han communities. Intimate Politics explores these practices that have constituted eastern Hui'an residents, women in particular, as an anomaly among rural Han.

      Trade Review
      In her ethnographic study of rural coastal women in Fujian province, anthropologist Friedman documents in excellent detail the diverse impacts of the modernizing Chinese state on women who are symbolically represented in wider Chinese society as 'the Hui'an woman.' -- E. P. Lozada * Choice *

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