ISBN:
9780822385394
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (494 pages)
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4 illustrations, 4 tables
Series Statement:
Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
DDC:
305.42/0951
Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
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Feminism History
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Feminist theory
Abstract:
The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism is a history of thinking about the subject of women in twentieth-century China. Tani E. Barlow illustrates the theories and conceptual categories that Enlightenment Chinese intellectuals have developed to describe the collectivity of women. Demonstrating how generations of these theorists have engaged with international debates over eugenics, gender, sexuality, and the psyche, Barlow argues that as an Enlightenment project, feminist debate in China is at once Chinese and international. She reads social theory, psychoanalytic thought, literary criticism, ethics, and revolutionary political ideologies to illustrate the range and scope of Chinese feminist theory's preoccupation with the problem of gender inequality. She reveals how, throughout the cataclysms of colonial modernity, revolutionary modernization, and market socialism, prominent Chinese feminists have gathered up the remainders of the past and formed them into social and ethical arguments, categories, and political positions, ceaselessly reshaping progressive Enlightenment sexual liberation theory
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)
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In English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822385394
URL:
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