Engendering China : : Women, Culture, and the State / / ed. by Christina K. Gilmartin, Tyrene White, Lisa Rofel, Gail Hershatter.

• MitwirkendeR: Barlow, Tani E.,; Campbell, S. Katherine,; Carlitz, Katherine,; Furth, Charlotte,; Gilmartin, Christina K.,; Hershatter, Gail,; Hong, Zhu,; Mann, Susan,; Rofel, Lisa,; Silber, Cathy,; White, Tyrene,; Woo, Margaret Y. K.,; Xiaojiang, Li,; Xiaoxian, Gao,; Xueping, Zhong,; Yiyun, Chen,; Ziyun, Li,
• HerausgeberIn: Gilmartin, Christina K.,; Hershatter, Gail,; Rofel, Lisa,; White, Tyrene ,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard Contemporary China Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (470 p.)

This first significant collection of essays on women in China in more than two decades captures a pivotal moment in a cross-cultural-and interdisciplinary-dialogue. For the first time, the voices of China-based scholars are heard alongside scholars positioned in the United States. The distinguished contributors to this volume are of different generations, hold citizenship in different countries, and were trained in different disciplines, but all embrace the shared project of mapping gender in China and making power-laden relationships visible. The essays take up gender issues from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Chapters focus on learned women in the eighteenth century, the changing status of contemporary village women, sexuality and reproduction, prostitution, women's consciousness, women's writing, the gendering of work, and images of women in contemporary Chinese fiction. Some of the liveliest disagreements over the usefulness of western feminist theory and scholarship on China take place between Chinese working in China and Chinese in temporary or longtime diaspora. Engendering China will appeal to a broad academic spectrum, including scholars of Asian studies, critical theory, feminist studies, cultural studies, and policy studies.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Beyond Family, Household, and Kinship -- 1. Learned Women in the Eighteenth Century -- 2. From Daughter to Daughter-in-Law in the Women's Script of Southern Hunan -- 3. Out of the Traditional Halls of Academe: Exploring New Avenues for Research on Women -- 4. China's Modernization and Changes in the Social Status of Rural Women -- II Sex and the Social Order -- 5. Desire, Danger, and the Body: Stories of Women's Virtue in Late Ming China -- 6. Rethinking Van Gulik: Sexuality and Reproduction in Traditional Chinese Medicine -- 7. Modernizing Sex, Sexing Modernity: Prostitution in Early Twentieth-Century Shanghai -- 8. Male Suffering and Male Desire: The Politics of Reading Half of Man Is Woman by Zhang Xianliang -- III Where Liberation Lies -- 9. Gender, Political Culture, and Women's Mobilization in the Chinese Nationalist Revolution, 1924-1927 -- 10. Liberation Nostalgia and a Yearning for Modernity -- 11. The Origins of China's Birth Planning Policy -- 12. Chinese Women Workers: The Delicate Balance between Protection and Equality -- IV Becoming Women in the Post-Mao Era -- 13. Women's Consciousness and Women's Writing -- 14. Women, Illness, and Hospitalization: Images of Women in Contemporary Chinese Fiction -- 15. Politics and Protocols of Funü: (Un)Making National Woman -- 16. Economic Reform and the Awakening of Chinese Women's Collective Consciousness -- Notes -- Contributors