The effects of the Chinese Communist land reform on women and their families

Gender, Land and Sexuality: Exploring Connections

“…Many women as well as men disliked collectives-and of course failure to deliver economically meant hunger, if not worse. However, there exists much testimony of some support for collectives particularly among women who were socially marginalised, such as widows, single women, female-headed households as well as some married women (see Deere 1983Deere , 1986Frenier 1983; Pelzer-White 1987, for a few examples. )…”