Gender, China and the World Trade Organization: Essays from Feminist Economics

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Günseli Berik (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA) Xiao-yuan Dong (University of Winnipeg, Canada)

Gender, China and the World Trade Organization

Essays from Feminist Economics

Günseli Berik (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA), Xiao-yuan Dong (University of Winnipeg, Canada), Gale Summerfield (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA) , Gale Summerfield

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Routledge
29 March 2012

Gender studies, gender groups; Trade agreements; Development economics

China’s joining the World Trade Organization at the end of 2001 signifies a milestone in the country’s global integration after two decades of economic reforms that have fundamentally transformed the economic organization of China. This collection seeks to identify the gendered implications within China of the country’s transition from socialism to a market economy and its opening up to international trade and investment. The changes have created greater wealth for some, while at the same time, serious gender, class, ethnic, and regional disparities have also emerged. Drawing from historical, analytical, and policy-oriented work, the essays in this collection explore women’s well-being relative to men’s in rural and urban China by looking at land rights, labor-market status and labor rights, household decision-making, health, the representation of women in advertising and beauty pageants.

This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal, Feminist Economics, the official journal of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE). All contributions have been subjected to the journal's rigorous peer review process and comply with the journal's editorial policies, as overseen by the editor, Diana Strassmann, and the journal's editorial team, including the associate editors, the editorial board, numerous volunteer reviewers, and the journal's in-house editorial staff and freelance style editors. The special issue and book have been made possible by the generous financial support of Rice University and the Ford Foundation-Beijing.

Edited by: Günseli Berik (University of Utah Salt Lake City USA), Xiao-yuan Dong (University of Winnipeg, Canada), Gale Summerfield (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA), Gale Summerfield
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 630g
ISBN: 9780415623353
ISBN 10: 0415623359
Pages: 326
Publication Date: 29 March 2012
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Günseli Berik is Professor of Economics at the University of Utah in the United States. Her recent research focuses on international trade, gender wage inequality and working conditions in Asia with a particular focus on Bangladesh, China, Korea, and Taiwan; debates on labour standards; and gender inequalities in training for the skilled trades in the U.S. Dr. Berik is a Co-editor for the journal Feminist Economics, and a guest editor most recently of the journal’s Inequality, Development, and Growth special issue (2009). Xiao-yuan Dong is Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Winnipeg, Canada, and an adjunct Professor of the China Center of Economic Research, Peking University, China. She received her doctorate from the University of Alberta, Canada. Her research focuses on China’s economic transition and development. Gale Summerfield is Director of the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program and Associate Professor of Human and Community Development at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her current research interests address gender and economic reform in China, human security (income, property rights, and health), and transnational migration.