Women's rights in post 1949 China

[Matty_UK]

I need to right an essay on post-1949 Chinese culture, and was thinking of doing it on how things have changed for women.

Any maoists know some good essays I could use for sources?

Or, since I'm not sure it's really the sort of culture I'm supposed to right about, do you have any other suggestions of what I could do the essay on?

[redguard2009]

This thread: http://www.revleft.com/vb/major-study-cultural-t98316/index.html

has a good essay on the Cultural Revolution period in China, including some bits on women's rights.

[BobKKKindle$]

I think this is a great topic choice, so try and stick with it. The link posted above should have some good stuff, but also try and get hold of 'Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era'.

[Matty_UK]

Cheers, those are both useful.

I'm thinking of making the essay's main theme a contrast between the liberation of women under socialism and under capitalism; do you know any sources at all that discuss the commodification of female sexuality within China, and particularly the marketing of fetishistic orientalised sexuality towards the west?

[jake williams]

I don't want to muck up your topic or throw you off course, but would it be worth looking at similar processes for women in Soviet societies? Or the state of prostitution in Eastern Europe, during and after the Soviet Union?