Author: David L. Wank
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: communism, commodifying
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2001-02-15
List price: $30.99
ISBN-10: 0521798418
ISBN-13: 9780521798419

Commodifying Communism is an ethnographic study of the role of personal ties between private entrepreneurs and local officials in the organization of China’s emerging market economy. It is based on almost two years of fieldwork in Xiamen City, Fujian, one of China’s five special economic zones. A close examination of how private business is conducted through these ties sheds light on the dynamism of China’s market economy and its political consequences.Book DescriptionCommodifying Communism is an ethnographic study of the role of personal ties between private entrepreneurs an

Author: Nicole Rousseau
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: black, reproduction, commodifying, burden, woman
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-09-15
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0230615309
ISBN-13: 9780230615304

Black Woman�s Burden examines the historical endeavors to regulate Black female sexuality and reproduction in the United States through methods of exploitation, control, repression, and coercion. The myth of the �angry Black woman� has been built over generations through clever rhetoric and oppressive social policy. Here Rousseau explores the continued impact of labeling and stereotyping on the development of policies that lead to the construction of national, racial, and gender identities for Black women.�