The subject of gender: daughters and mothers in urban China

This is an incisive and highly articulate study of mother-daughter relations in contemporary China.Relations between mother and daughter, particularly the married-out daughter, tend to cut across the patrilineal structures of Chinese kinship systems.For this reason, they have been much less studied than traditional patrilineal norms.While the earlier work of Margery Wolf and Ellen Judd offered valuable insights into the impact of patrilocal marriage on women, The Subject of Gender is the first work to specifically treat the affective bonds between mother and daughter over the course of their lives.Relying on the broad methodologies of oral histories, narrative analysis, gender and memory studies, Harriet Evans draws on intensive interviews conducted with