Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables, and Graphs -- Acknowledgments -- Mystery Women-An Introduction -- 1 …-Origins of the Shuttle Trade, 1987-91 -- 2-The "Golden Age" of the Shuttle Tradeand Its Structure -- 3-Women Traders: Success … in Numbers -- 4-The Price of Success -- 5-Where Did All the Women Go? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. …

interview data collected from women of three different cohorts in urban China, this study challenges China's free …-market approach and demonstrates its negative impacts on women's work and family experiences. The book also explores urban women's non …

The participation of women in agriculture and the role of women in society in the preindustrial period were remarkably … work was done by women, and plough cultivation, a system mostly dominated by men. In this article, we review the literature …. We also provide additional evidence showing that differences regarding the role of women across the two agricultural …