The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power

The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
Steve Fraser (Author)
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Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China (Asian Arguments)

Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China (Asian Arguments)
Leta Hong Fincher (Author)

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A century ago, Chinese feminists fighting for the emancipation of women helped spark the Republican Revolution, which overthrew the Qing empire. After China's Communist revolution of 1949, Chairman Mao famously proclaimed that "women hold up half the sky." In the early years of the People's Republic, the Communist Party sought to transform gender relations with expansive initiatives such as assigning urban women jobs in the planned economy. Yet those gains are now being eroded in China's post-socialist era. Contrary to many claims made in the mainstream media, women in China have experienced a dramatic rollback of many rights and gains relative to men.

Leftover Women debunks the popular myth that women have fared well as a result of post-socialist China's economic reforms and breakneck growth. Laying out the structural discrimination against women in China will speak to broader problems with China's economy, politics, and development.

• Rank: #98448 in Books
• Published on: 2014-05-01
• Released on: 2014-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government (Vintage)

So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government (Vintage)
Robert G. Kaiser (Author)
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With a New Foreword

In So Damn Much Money, veteran Washington Post editor and correspondent Robert Kaiser gives a detailed account of how the boom in political lobbying since the 1970s has shaped American politics by empowering special interests, undermining effective legislation, and discouraging the country’s best citizens from serving in office. Kaiser traces this dramatic change in our political system through the colorful story of Gerald S. J. Cassidy, one of Washington’s most successful lobbyists. Superbly told, it’s an illuminating dissection of a political system badly in need of reform.

• Rank: #34828 in Books
• Published on: 2010-02-09
• Released on: 2010-02-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.00" h x .90" w x 5.17" l, .88 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages