Chinese femininities, chinese masculinities : a reader /
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| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 460 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Asia--Local studies/global themes ; 4 Asia (Columbia University. East Asian Institute) ; 4. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11128901 |
Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Gender and the law (Qing dynasty). Femininity in flux: gendered virtue and social conflict in the mid-Qing courtroom / Janet M. Theiss. Dangerous males, vulnerable males, and polluted males: the regulation of masculinity in Qing dynasty law / Matthew H. Sommer
- pt. 2. 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 / Susan Mann. "The truths I have learned": nationalism, family reform, and male identity in China's New Culture Movement, 1915-1923 / Susan L. Glosser
- pt. 3. Gender in literary traditions (May fourth era to Reform era). Invention and intervention: the making of a female tradition in modern Chinese literature / Lydia H. Liu. The self loving the self: men and connoisseurship in modern Chinese literature / Wendy Larson
- pt. 4. Dangerous women and dangerous men (late Ming dynasty to early Communist period). Modernizing sex, sexing modernity: prostitution in early-twentieth-century Shanghai / Gail Hershatter. Approximations of Chinese bandits: perverse rebels, romantic heroes, or frustrated bachelors? / David Ownby
- pt. 5. The gender of rebels (Cultural Revolution). Maoist mappings of gender: reassessing the Red Guards / Emily Honig. "Little brothers" in the Cultural Revolution: the worker rebels of Shanghai / Elizabeth J. Perry, Nara Dillon
- pt. 6. 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 / Charlotte Furth. Embodying qi and masculinities in post-Mao China / Nancy N. Chen.
- pt. 7. Shifting contexts of gender and sexuality (Reform era). Past, perfect or imperfect: changing images of the ideal wife / Harriet Evans. Proper men and proper women: parental affection in the Chinese family / William Jankowiak
- pt. 8. Gender, sexuality, and ethnicity (Reform era). Gender and internal Orientalism in China / Louisa Schein. Tradition and the gender of civility / Ralph Litzinger
- Afterword: putting gender at the center / Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Susan Brownell.