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Thinking Allowed: Gender Inequality in China; Smokestack Nostalgia

28/05/2014

Gender Inequality in China; Smokestack Nostalgia

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Gender Inequality in China; Smokestack Nostalgia

Chinese women and the resurgence of gender inequality. Also, 'smokestack nostalgia'.

Leftover Women: Laurie Taylor hears about the resurgence of gender inequality in China. Also, 'smokestack nostalgia': the meaning of post-industrial imagery.

Chinese women & the resurgence of gender inequality. Laurie Taylor talks to Leta Hong Fincher, about 'Leftover Women', her study of the pressures facing Modern Chinese women who are often locked out of social equality, property rights, and legal protection from domestic abuse.

Also, 'smokestack nostalgia' - the meaning of post-industrial imagery. Tim Stangleman, Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, questions the continuing desire to reflect back and find value in our industrial past.

Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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