Reconceiving Women's Equality in China

"According to Lijun Yuan, the subordination of Chinese women has continued under different models of sex equality in China in the twentieth century. In Reconceiving Women's Equality in China she discusses and assesses four models of women's equality: the traditional Confucian view advocating that women's role is to follow and support men; the liberal feminist idea of formal equality for women introduced into China at the beginning of the twentieth century; Mao's view of women's equality in production; and the idea of equal opportunity in the economic transformation in the post-Mao period."--BOOK JACKET.