Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-285) and index.
Eating Bitterness : The Past and the Pattern -- Speaking Bitterness : Doing Research in the People's Republic of China -- Women Workers in the Cities -- Women Workers in the Countryside -- Being and Becoming a Proper Chinese Woman -- Cooked Rice : Marriage in New China -- The Setting of Chinese Women's Lives : Family Organization -- Sharing a Urban Domestic Relations -- Sharing a Stove : Rural Domestic Relations -- The Birth Limitation Program : Family vs. State -- The Other Revolution.