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Question of Women in Chinese Feminism (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism is a history of thinking about the subject of women in twentieth-century China. Tani E. Barlow illustrates the theories and conceptual categories that Enlightenment Chinese intellectuals have developed to describe the collectivity of women. Demonstrating how generations of these theorists have engaged with international debates over eugenics, gender, sexuality, and the psyche, Barlow argues that as an Enlightenment project, feminist debate in China is at once Chinese and international. She reads social theory, psychoanalytic thought, literary criticism, ethics, and revolutionary political ideologies to illustrate the range and scope of Chinese feminist theory's preoccupation with the problem of gender inequality. She reveals how, throughout the cataclysms of colonial modernity, revolutionary modernization, and market socialism, prominent Chinese feminists have gathered up the remainders of the past and formed them into social and ethical arguments, categories, and political positions, ceaselessly reshaping progressive Enlightenment sexual liberation theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 494
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822385394
• Artikelnr.: 54817104

Autorenporträt

Tani E. Barlow is a historian of modern China teaching in the Women’s Studies Department at the University of Washington, Seattle. She is the editor of many books, including Formations of Colonial Modernity in East Asia and New Asian Marxisms, both published by Duke University Press. Barlow is the founding senior editor of positions: east asia cultures critique, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1 History and Catachresis 15
2 Theorizing “Women” 37
3 Foundations of Progressive Chinese Feminism 64
4 Woman and Colonial Modernity in the Early Thought of Ding Ling 127
5 Women under Maoist Nationalism in the Thought of Ding Ling 190
6 Socialist Modernization and the Market Feminism of Li Xiaojiang 253
7 Dai Jinhua, Globalization, and 1990s Poststructuralist Feminism 302
Conclusion 355
Appendix to Chapter 1: Histtoriography and Catachresis 365
Notes 373
Works Cited 443
Index 471