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Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities A Reader

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ISBN-10: 0520221168

ISBN-13: 9780520221161

Edition: 2003

Authors: Susan Brownell, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Thomas Laqueur

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The past two centuries have witnessed tremendous upheavals in every aspect of Chinese culture and society. At the level of everyday life, some of the most remarkable transformations have occurred in the realm of gender.Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinitiesis a mix of illuminating historical and ethnographic studies of gender from the 1700s to the present. The essays in this highly creative collection are organized in pairs that alternate in focus between femininity and masculinity, between subjects traditionally associated with feminism (such as family life) and those rarely considered from a gendered point of view (like banditry). The chapters provide a wealth of interesting detail on…    
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Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/7/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 474
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Introduction: Theorizing Femininities and Masculinities
Gender and The Law (Qing Dynasty)
Femininity in Flux: Gendered Virtue and Social Conflict in the Mid--Qing Courtroom
Dangerous Males, Vulnerable Males, and Polluted Males: The Regulation of Masculinity in Qing Dynasty Law
Ideals of Marriage and Family (Mid--Qing Dynasty and Early Republican Era)
Grooming a Daughter for Marriage: Brides and Wives in the Mid--Qing Period
"The Truths I Have Learned": Nationalism, Family Reform, and Male Identity in China's New Culture Movement, 1915-1923
Gender in Literary Traditions (May Fourth Era to Reform Era)
Invention and Intervention: The Making of a Female Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature
The Self Loving the Self: Men and Connoisseurship in Modern Chinese Literature
Dangerous Women and Dangerous Men (Late Ming Dynasty to Early Communist Period)
Modernizing Sex, Sexing Modernity: Prostitution in Early-Twentieth-Century Shanghai
Approximations of Chinese Bandits: Perverse Rebels, Romantic Heroes, or Frustrated Bachelors?
The Gender of Rebels (Cultural Revolution)
Maoist Mappings of Gender: Reassessing the Red Guards
"Little Brothers" in the Cultural Revolution: The Worker Rebels of Shanghai
Blood, QI, and The Gendered Body (Qing Dynasty and Reform Era)
Blood, Body, and Gender: Medical Images of the Female Condition in China, 1600-1850
Embodying Qi and Masculinities in Post-Mao China
Shifting Contexts of Gender and Sexuality (Reform Era)
Past, Perfect or Imperfect: Changing Images of the Ideal Wife
Proper Men and Proper Women: Parental Affection in the Chinese Family
Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity (Reform Era)
Gender and Internal Orientalism in China
Tradition and the Gender of Civility
Afterword: Putting Gender at the Center
Contributors
Index