Leftover Women - The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, 10th Anniversary Edition

A China Books Review Best China Book of 2023

Leta Hong Fincher's landmark book Leftover Women shone a light on the resurgence of gender inequality in 21st-century China. Ten years on, women in China continue to experience a dramatic rolling back of rights and gains in the increasingly patriarchal political climate of the Xi Jinping era.

Leftover Women explores the structural discrimination against women and the broader problems with China's economy, politics, and development that lie behind it. This updated edition includes a new preface exploring developments in China in the 10 years since the book's original publication, including the new "three child policy", the growth in online feminist and LGBTQ activism and the state's increasingly repressive moves against dissent.

Preface to the Revised Edition
Introduction
1. China's 'Leftover' Women
2. How Chinese Women were Shut Out of the Biggest Accumulation of Real-Estate Wealth in History
3. China's Giant Gender Wealth Gap
4. Back to the Ming Dynasty
5. Wives Caught in China's Web of Abuse
6. Fighting Back
Index