Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese History

Name: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese History
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ISBN: 9780521683708

ISBN-10: 052168370X

ISBN-13: 9780521683708

Edition: 2011

Authors: Susan L. Mann

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List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/30/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Susan Mann is Professor Emerita of History at the University of California, Davis. She has written many books including The Talented Women of the Zhang Family (2007) and Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century (1997).



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Acknowledgments


Preface: Does Sex Have a History?


Introduction: The cloistered lady and the bare stick



Gender, Sexuality, and the State



Family and state: The separation of the sexes



Traffic in women and the problem of single men



Sexuality and gender relations in politics and law



Gender, Sexuality, and the Body



The body in medicine, art, and sport



The body adorned, displayed, concealed, and altered



Abandoning the body: Female suicide and female infanticide



Gender, Sexuality, and the Other



Same-sex relationships and txansgendered performance



Sexuality in the creative imagination



Sexuality and the Other


Conclusion: Gender, sexuality, and citizenship


Afterword: Gender and Sexuality - Useful Categories of Historical Analysis?


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