1. Half the sky? Gender in China Today

2. Village life (Gao) formal equality, but “the burden of tradition is heavy” patrilocality still gives advantage to men, esp. vis a vis divorce

3. village life still, “on the whole, the Communist regime has taken a giant step towards the emancipation of women in rural China.” (Gao: 237) –ideas and attitudes –property rights –education –production –voting, though not necessarily winning office –domestic abuse rare

4. urban life: homes post-Mao: development of real estate market, ideal of home ownership but whose space is it?

5. urban life: whose home? (Davis) marketing geared to men neolocal form, but men primarily deed or lease holder “our home” or “my home” in thought, but his home as investment home as status display: whose status?

6. urban life: whose status? men more active in activity of design/modeling “the higher the income and the greater the authority of the husband in the workplace, the more clearly had the house become his home.” (238) his special space: “high-status men are more likely than lower-status men to assert dominance in the home” (243)

7. urban life: the male tilt individual winning over collective with private property but not gender neutral “privatization of real estate has strengthened male control over family property and thereby reversed the earlier tendency of collective ownership to neutralize traditional male advantages and feminize domestic space in Chinese cities.” (Davis: 247)