Gender in Motion Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China

Name: Gender in Motion Divisions of Labor and Cultural Change in Late Imperial and Modern China
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ISBN: 9780742538252

ISBN-10: 0742538257

ISBN-13: 9780742538252

Edition: 2004

Authors: Bryna Goodman, Wendy Larson

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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…

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List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/5/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Axes of Gender: Divisions of Labor and Spatial Separation




Patterns of Mobility



Making Sex Work: Polyandry as a Survival Strategy in Qing Dynasty China




The Virtue of Travel for Women in the Late Empire




Gender on Stage: Actresses in an Actors' World (1895-1930)




Women on the Move: Women's Kinship, Residence, and Networks in Rural Shandong




Spatial Transformations



Between Nei and Wai: Chinese Women Students in Japan in the Early Twentieth Century




Playing with the Public: Late Qing Courtesans and Their Opera Singer Lovers




Unofficial History and Gender Boundary Crossing in the Early Chinese Republic: Shen Peizhen and Xiaofengxian




Gender and Maoist Urban Reorganization




He Yi's The Postman: The Work Space of a New Age Maoist




Boundaries



Women's Work and the Economics of Respectability




The Vocational Woman and the Elusiveness of "Personhood" in Early Republican China




Women's Work and Boundary Transgression in Wang Dulu's Popular Novels




Virtue at Work: Rural Shaanxi Women Remember the 1950s



Index


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