ISBN:
0742538249
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0742538257
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 343 p.
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ill
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24cm
Series Statement:
Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
DDC:
305.30951
Keywords:
Geschichte 1634-1960
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Sex role Congresses History
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Women Congresses Social conditions
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Women Congresses History
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Geschlechtliche Arbeitsteilung
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China
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Konferenzschrift 2001
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
;
Konferenzschrift
;
China
;
Geschlechtliche Arbeitsteilung
;
Geschichte 1634-1960
Description / Table of Contents:
Inhalt: Introduction: Axes of Gender: Divisions of Labor and Spatial Separation / Bryna Goodman and Wendy Larson -- Pt. I: PATTERNS OF MOBILITY: Making Sex Work: Polyandry as a Survival Strategy in Qing Dynasty China / Matthew H. Sommer ; The Virtue of Travel for Women in the Late Empire / Susan Mann ; Gender on Stage: Actresses in an Actors' World (1895-1930) / Luo Suwen ; Women on the Move: Women's Kinship, Residence, and Networks in Rural Shandong / Ellen R. Judd -- Pt. II: SPATIAL TRANSFORMATIONS: Between Nei and Wai: Chinese Women Students in Japan in the Early Twentieth Century / Joan Judge ; Playing with the Public: Late Qing Courtesans and Their Opera Singer Lovers / Catherine Vance Yeh ; Unofficial History and Gender Boundary Crossing in the Early Chinese Republic: Shen Peizhen and Xiaofengxian / Madeleine Yue Dong ; Gender and Maoist Urban Reorganization / Wang Zheng ; He Yi's The Postman: The Workspace of a New Age Maoist / Wendy Larson -- Pt. III: BOUNDARIES: Women's Work and the Economics of Respectability / Kenneth Pomeranz ; The Vocational Woman and the Elusiveness of "Personhood" in Early Republican China / Bryna Goodman ; Women's Work and Boundary Transgression in Wang Dulu's Popular Novels / Tze-lan Deborah Sang ; Virtue at Work: Rural Shaanxi Women Remember the 1950s / Gail Hershatter
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Based on a conference held at the University of Oregon in October 2001
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Angaben zum Inhalt: Bringing together the work of distinguished China historians, anthropologists, and literary and film scholars, Gender in Motion raises provocative questions about the diversity of gender practices during the late imperial society and the persistence and transformation of older gender ideologies under the conditions of modernity in China. While several studies have investigated gender or labor in late imperial and twentieth century China, this book brings these two concepts together, asking how these two categories interacted and produced new social practices and theories. Individual chapters examine agricultural and urban work, travel within China, overseas study, polyandry, the acting profession, courtesan culture, female politicians, Maoist work culture, and the boundaries of virtue and respectability. Governing notions of the social order (and interrelated constructions of gender) changed radically in the modern era—initially with the questioning of the imperial, dynastic order and the creation of a Chinese republic in the early twentieth century, later with the creation of a Communist government and, most recently, with China's political and cultural transformations in the post-Mao era. As ideas and practices of gender have changed, the persistence of older rhetorical signs in the interstices of new political visions has complicated the social projects and understandings of modernity, especially in terms of the creation of new public spaces, new concepts of work and virtue, and new configurations of gender.
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip051/2004022274.html
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