ISBN:
9781139157056
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (258 pages)
Series Statement:
New Approaches to Asian History v.9
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Mann, Susan, 1943 - Gender and sexuality in modern Chinese history
DDC:
305.420951
Keywords:
Women
;
Sex
;
Sex role
;
Sex role -- China
;
Women -- China
;
Sex -- China
;
Sex ; China
;
Sex role ; China
;
Women ; China
;
Electronic books
;
China
;
Geschlecht
;
Sexualität
;
Gesellschaft
;
Geschichte 19.-20. Jh.
Abstract:
This book tracks the transformation of sexuality and gender in China, from late imperial times to modern times.
Abstract:
Cover -- Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese History -- New Approaches to Asian History -- Title -- Copyright -- in memory William Skinner 1925-2008 -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: Does Sex Have a History? -- Introduction: The cloistered lady and the bare stick -- Sexuality and social life -- Sexuality and marriage -- Sexuality and social identity -- Sexuality and social space -- Sexuality and mobility -- Sexuality and government -- Late imperial transformations -- Twentieth-century transformations -- PART I GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND THE STATE -- 2 Traffic in women and the problem of single men -- Twentieth-century shifts in markets for women -- The traffic in women and twentieth-century revolutions -- Trafficking in women and the one-child policy -- 3 Sexuality and gender relations in politics and law -- Law and sex in late imperial thought -- Early-twentieth-century shifts -- Sexuality, politics, and the law in the Peoples Republic of China -- 1 Family and state: The separation of the sexes -- The separation of the sexes -- Passion and pleasure -- Enforcing the separation of the sexes -- The crack in the wall problem: tensions between passion and arranged marriage -- Twentieth-century shifts -- PART II GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND THE BODY -- 4 The body in medicine, art, and sport -- The body in late imperial medicine -- Change in the twentieth century -- Sex and the medical body -- The body in art -- The body in sport -- Able and disabled bodies -- 5 The body adorned, displayed, concealed, and altered -- Dress and adornment in the Qing period -- Eunuchs and other disfigured bodies -- Cross-dressing and girls who want to be boys -- From concealment to exposure in the twentieth century -- "Men and women are the same": gender sameness and difference in the Mao and post-Mao years.
Description / Table of Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Gender, Sexuality, and the State: 1. Family and state: the separation of the sexes; 2. Traffic in women and the problem of single men; 3. Gender relations in politics and law; Part II. Gender, Sexuality, and the Body: 4. The body in medicine, art, and sport; 5. Adorning, displaying, concealing, and altering the body; 6. Abandoning the body: female suicide and female infanticide; Part III. Gender, Sexuality, and the 'Other': 7. Same-sex relationships and trans-gendered performance; 8. Sexuality in the creative imagination; 9. Sexuality and the 'other'; Conclusion: gender, sexuality and, citizenship.
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