"Red Silk is a history of China's Yangzi Delta silk industry during the wars, crises, and revolutions of the mid-twentieth century. Based on extensive research in Chinese archives and focused on the 1950s, the book compares two very different groups of silk workers and their exp…
Introduction: a tale of two unemployments -- Men at home: reconfiguring space during mens unemployment -- Idealizing the home and spurning the workplace? -- Dinner table diaries -- Can women be ideal job-seekers? -- Why don't unemployed men do more housework? -- Why do unemploye…
Front Matter -- Copyright Page /Martha E. Gimenez -- Dedication /Martha E. Gimenez -- Acknowledgements /Martha E. Gimenez -- Notes on Essays /Martha E. Gimenez -- Introduction /Martha E. Gimenez -- Marxist-Feminist Theory /Martha E. Gimenez -- Marxism and Feminism /Martha E. Gim…
"Gender matters in economics--for even with today's technology, fertility choices, market opportunities, and improved social norms, economic outcomes for women remain markedly worse than for men. Drawing on insights from feminism, postmodernism, psychology, evolutionary biology,…
