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Women, the Family, and Peasant Revolution in China
Kay Ann Johnson provides much-needed information about women and gender equality under Communist leadership. She contends that, although the Chinese Communist Party has always ostensibly favored women's rights and family reform, it has rarely pushed for such reforms. In reality, its policies often have reinforced the traditional role of women to further the Party's predominant economic and military aims. Johnson's primary focus is on reforms of marriage and family because traditional marriage, family, and kinship practices have had the greatest influence in defining and shaping women's place in Chinese society. Conversant with current theory in political science, anthropology, and Marxist and feminist analysis, Johnson writes with clarity and discernment free of dogma. Her discussions of family reform ultimately provide insights into the Chinese government's concern with decreasing the national birth rate, which has become a top priority. Johnson's predictions of a coming crisis in population control are borne out by the recent increase in female infanticide and the government abortion campaign.
China's Hidden Children
In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120,000 children—mostly girls—have left China through international adoption, including 85,000 to the United States. It’s generally assumed that this diaspora is the result of China’s approach to population control, but there is also the underlying belief that the majority of adoptees are daughters because the One-Child Policy often collides with the traditional preference for a son. While there is some truth to this, it does not tell the full story—a story with deep personal resonance to Kay Ann Johnson, a China scholar and mother to an adopted Chinese daughter. Johnson spent years talking with the Chinese paren...
Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son
For those who have adopted children from China this book is a must. It gives us a history easy to read about adoption both domestic and international in China.
Chinese Village, Socialist State
This portrait of social change in the North China plain depicts how the world of the Chinese peasant evolved during an era of war and how it in turn shaped the revolutionary process. The book is based on evidence gathered from archives and interviews with villagers and rural officials.
Whose Baby?
What do you do when the hospital makes a mistake? For the sake of her daughters can she marry a stranger? Lynn Chanak is living the nightmare every mother fears. There was a mix-up at the hospital. Her baby isn't hers. And the only way she can have the baby she gave birth to and keep the child she loves is to marry Adam Landry-a man she doesn't even know. For the sake of his daughters can he marry a woman he'll never love? Adam was devastated when his Jenny died. And his only consolation was their daughter. But as much as he loves Rose, he can't stand to think that the child Jenny carried for nine months will grow up without him. If marrying a stranger is what it takes to have both his daughters, then that's what he'll do. Even though he still loves Jenny… For the sake of their daughters can they make this marriage work?
How to be a Great Online Teacher
Based on her own teaching experiences as a highly successful online instructor, Lehmann discusses the knowledge base and communication skills necessary to be a high-quality online teacher.
Someone Like Her
Finding his mother is the only reason Adrian Rutledge would set foot in this backward place. In fact, he can't get out of town fast enough. At least, that's his attitude before Lucy Peterson works her magic on him. The café owner is nothing like what he thought he needed, yet she's all he wants. Then the job pulls him back to the city and Adrian slips into the life he once worked hard to achieve. And while it may not fit the way it did, he can't simply abandon it. Or can he? Because suddenly he's tempted by everything Lucy's offering.
Between Love and Duty (A Brother's Word, Book 1) (Mills & Boon Vintage Superromance)
There's a right way, then there's the wrong way
Patton's Daughters
The father they feared and hated is dead. Yet Elk Springs, Oregon, remains a town with secrets... Patton's Daughter: Renee Renee Patton is a cop determined to see justice done. But the discovery of a human skull has stirred up her own ghosts--as well as feelings for the rancher who found it. For Daniel Barnard, she believes she can give up the past and have a future. If only his mother wasn't hiding something. Patton's Daughter: Meg For single mom and sheriff's deputy Meg Patton, it's time to reconcile with her sisters and get on with life. She actually starts to think she could do that with Scott McNeil, a man she meets when he agrees to care for an abandoned baby. But then he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of the infant's mother. Meg has to prove he's innocent--for her sake, as well as his.
