Chapter One: Dutiful Help: Masking Rural Women’s Economic Contributions;
Chapter Two: From Care Providers to Financial Burdens: The Changing Role of Sons and Reproductive Choice in Rural Northeast China;
Chapter Three: Higher Education, Gender, and Elder Support in Rural Northwest China;
Chapter Four: Multiple Mothering and Labor Migration in Rural South China;
Chapter Five: Urbanization and the Transformation of Kinship Practice in Shandong;
Chapter Six: Being the Right Woman for “Mr. Right”: Marriage and Household Politics in Present-Day Nanjing;
Chapter Seven: Emergent Conjugal Love, Mutual Affection, and Female Marital Power;
Chapter Eight: Under Pressure: Lesbian-Gay Contract Marriages and Their Patriarchal Bargains;
Chapter Nine: Patriarchal Investments: Expectations of Male Authority and Support in a Poor Beijing Neighborhood;
Chapter Ten: Taking Patriarchy Out of Postpartum Recovery?
Chapter Eleven: Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Sperm Donation, and Biological Kinship: A Recent Chinese Media Debate;
Chapter Twelve: Recalibrating Filial Piety: Realigning the State, Family, and Market Interests in China