Women, Gender and Rural Development in China, Hardcover by Jacka, Tamara (EDT); Sargeson, Sally (EDT), ISBN 1848446829, ISBN-13 9781848446823, Brand New, Free P&P in the UKNine studies from an August 2009 symposium at The Australian National University ponder whether Chinese and non-governmental organizational policy is shifting from a model in which gender equality in rural areas is viewed largely as concomitant to economic growth, to a model that enables rural women to pursue their own development goals. Researchers from a number of social sciences, most in Western countries, consider women shaping development; policies, institutions, and discourses; and the global, the local, and the project. Among specific topics are rural Kam women and contemporary Kam cultural development, challenging the gendered dimensions of schooling, and a development practitioner's reflections on developing Yunnan's rural and ethnic minority women. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()