Umfang:
1 online resource (476 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780520935303
Serie:
Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes Ser v.4
Inhalt:
The past two centuries have witnessed tremendous upheavals in every aspect of Chinese culture and society. At the level of everyday life, some of the most remarkable transformations have occurred in the realm of gender. Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities is a mix of illuminating historical and ethnographic studies of gender from the 1700s to the present. The essays in this highly creative collection are organized in pairs that alternate in focus between femininity and masculinity, between subjects traditionally associated with feminism (such as family life) and those rarely considered from a gendered point of view (like banditry). The chapters provide a wealth of interesting detail on such varied topics as court cases involving widows and homosexuals; ideal spouses of early-twentieth-century radicals; changing images of prostitutes; the masculinity of qigong masters; sexuality in the era of reform; and the eroticization of minorities. While most of the essays were specifically written for this volume, a few are reprinted as a testament to their enduring value. Exploring the central role of gender as an organizing principle of Chinese social life, Chinese Femininities/ Chinese Masculinities is an innovative reader that will spark new debate in a wide range of disciplines.
Inhalt:
Intro -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD -- Introduction: Theorizing Femininities and Masculinities -- PART ONE: Gender and the Law -- 1. Femininity in Flux: Gendered Virtue and Social Conflict in the Mid-Qing Courtroom -- 2. Dangerous Males, Vulnerable Males, and Polluted Males: The Regulation of Masculinity in Qing Dynasty Law -- PART TWO: Ideals of Marriage and Family -- 3. Grooming a Daughter for Marriage: Brides and Wives in the Mid-Qing Period -- 4. "The Truths I Have Learned": Nationalism, Family Reform, and Male Identity in China's New Culture Movement, 1915-1923 -- PART THREE: Gender in Literary Traditions -- 5. Invention and Intervention: The Making of a Female Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature -- 6. The Self Loving the Self: Men and Connoisseurship in Modern Chinese Literature -- PART FOUR: Dangerous Women and Dangerous Men -- 7. Modernizing Sex, Sexing Modernity: Prostitution in Early-Twentieth-Century Shanghai -- 8. Approximations of Chinese Bandits: Perverse Rebels, Romantic Heroes, or Frustrated Bachelors? -- PART FIVE: The Gender of Rebels -- 9. Maoist Mappings of Gender: Reassessing the Red Guards -- 10. "Little Brothers" in the Cultural Revolution: The Worker Rebels of Shanghai -- PART SIX: Blood, Qi, and the Gendered Body -- 11. Blood, Body, and Gender: Medical Images of the Female Condition in China, 1600 -1850 -- 12. Embodying Qi and Masculinities in Post-Mao China -- PART SEVEN: Shifting Contexts of Gender and Sexuality -- 13. Past, Perfect or Imperfect: Changing Images of the Ideal Wife -- 14. Proper Men and Proper Women: Parental Affection in the Chinese Family -- PART EIGHT: Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity -- 15. Gender and Internal Orientalism in China -- 16. Tradition and the Gender of Civility -- Afterword: Putting Gender at the Center -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.
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ISBN 9780520211032
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780520211032
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Print version Chinese Femininities, Chinese Masculinities : A Reader
Sprache:
Englisch
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