Invisible Gender Inequality in Rural China: Exploring the Reasons for Son Preference and Daughter Preference

Authors

  • Huimin Zhang

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34257/GJHSSCVOL22IS5PG29

Keywords:

son preference, patriarchal system, gender reproductive selection, marital stress, gender expectations

Abstract

Son preference seems to be disappearing in the current discursive environment replaced by the emergence of daughter preference in social communication Different from previous studies of son preference in China that focus on quantitative data this paper is based on an ethnographic study of a remote rural village in Shanxi Province

How to Cite

Huimin Zhang. (2022). Invisible Gender Inequality in Rural China: Exploring the Reasons for Son Preference and Daughter Preference. Global Journal of Human-Social Science, 22(C5), 29–35. https://doi.org/10.34257/GJHSSCVOL22IS5PG29

Invisible Gender Inequality in Rural China: Exploring the Reasons for Son Preference and Daughter  Preference

Published

2022-10-13