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Urban New Poverty from a Gender Perspective

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Revisiting Gender Inequality

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In the 1990s, as rural China saw a decrease in impoverishment, urban poverty increased in absolute as well as relative terms, thus arousing concern for social inequality and polarization in academic circles and in Chinese society at large. There are many facets to urban poverty, which has arisen out of China’s transition to a market economy, and in an attempt to capture the structural aspects of the development, Wang Chaoming and others began to employ the term “urban new poverty” (Wang 2000, 74–79; Knight 2000). The adoption of this term, however, meant that the gender dimensions of escalating poverty were often overlooked, which to some extent limited the analysis of new poverty in Chinese cities. This chapter aims to uncover the gender aspects of new poverty in order to highlight the link between immiseration and gender.

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Yihong, J. (2016). Urban New Poverty from a Gender Perspective. In: Wang, Q., Dongchao, M., Sørensen, B.Æ. (eds) Revisiting Gender Inequality. Comparative Feminist Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137550804_6

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