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Marriage Risk Avoidance and Resource Transformation among Rural Women with Disabilities

Lihua Xu, Xiaoming Tian, Xiongbang Hu

New Countryside · 120-136 · 10.55121/nc.v5i1.1055

This study investigates the marital choices of rural women with disabilities within a town located in Northwest China, a population positioned at the intersection of gender, disability, and rural disadvantage. Grounded in Bourdieu’s theoretical insights on capital, the study theorizes marriage as a strategic social field in whic