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Direct linkLiu, Fengshu – Gender and Education, 2014
China has seen dramatic transformations in ideals of femininity since the 1970s. This article explores what it entails for young women of the only-child generation to construct "modern" womanhood within a context of multiple and conflicting gender discourses. Based on life history interviews in Beijing, the article shows that both a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asian Culture, Females, Secondary School Students
Liu, Fengshu – Gender and Education, 2006
Studies on the effect of only-child status on girls' education indicate that the only-child policy has had an unintended consequence of engendering a child-centered culture with a strong belief and shared interest among the urban community in educating the only-child regardless of the child's sex. As the distribution of education by sex is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Social Theories, Males
