Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China by Leta Hong Fincher

Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China

Asian Arguments

Leta Hong Fincher

213 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction feminism challenging emotional informative slow-paced
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A century ago, Chinese feminists fighting for the emancipation of women helped spark the Republican Revolution, which overthrew the Qing empire. After China's Communist revolution of 1949, Chairman Mao famously proclaimed that "women hold up half ...

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