First published in 1978 Feminism and Socialism in China explores the inter-relationship of feminism and socialism and the contribution of each towards the redefinition of the role and status of women in China. In her history of the women s movement in China from the late nineteenth century onwards Professor Croll provides an opportunity to study its construction its ideological and structural development over a number of decades and its often ambiguous relationship with a parallel movement to establish socialism. Based on a variety of material including eye witness accounts the author examines a wide range of fundamental issues including women s class and oppression the relation of women s solidarity groups to class organisations reproduction and the accommodation of domestic labour women in the labour process and the relationship between women s participation in social production and their access to and control of political and economic resources. The book includes excerpts from studies of village and communal life documents of the women s movement and interviews with members of the movement.