Elizabeth Croll: 2 books
From Heaven to Earth
Images and Experiences of Development in China
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Much has been written of China's peasant revolution, less has been written on the peasant experience of reform. In From Heaven to Earth Elisabeth Croll examines the images, policies and experiences of development and links the peasants' experience of revolution and reform with their conceptualisations...
Endangered Daughters
Discrimination and Development in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
This unique and groundbreaking book seeks to re-focus gender debate onto the issue of daughter discrimination - a phenomenon still hidden and unacknowledged across the world.
It asks the controversial question of why millions of girls do not appear to be surviving to adulthood in contemporary...