Engendering the woman question : : men, women, and writing in China's early periodical press / / by Zhang Yun.

• Superior document: Women and gender in China studies ; Volume 12
• VerfasserIn: Zhang, Yun, 1986-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Women and gender in China studies ; Volume 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

In Engendering the Woman Question , Zhang Yun adopts a new approach to examining the early Chinese women's periodical press. Rather than seeing this new print and publishing genre as a gendered site coded as either "feminine" or "masculine," this book approaches it as a mixe...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction
• 1 Articulating the Woman Question: Women's Literary Heritage, Education, and the Nation
• 1 The Mixed-Gender Public Space in Nü xuebao
• 2 Debates on the Cainü Legacy
• 3 Asserting Intellectual Authority in the Public Space
• 4 Ambivalence: a Debate of Linguistic Registers
• 5 Conclusion
• 2 Nationalism and Beyond: Nüjie and the Construction of a New Gendered Collective Identity
• 1 The Cure for the Nation: Mobilizing Nüjie
• 2 A Nüjie of Their Own
• 3 Beyond Nationalism: Demanding a Revolution in Nüjie
• 4 Conclusion
• 3 The Manchu Woman Commits Suicide: Ethnicity and the Composition of the New Chinese Woman
• 1 A Sacrificial Martyr for a National Cause
• 2 Making a Manchu Heroine
• 3 Ethnicity and Gender: Manchu Women's Envisioning of Modern Womanhood
• 4 Conclusion
• 4 Fashioning Hygienic Womanhood: Women's Health and Bodies in Commercial Women's Journals
• 1 The Mixed-Gender Public Space of the Commercial Women's Journals: Male Editorial Agency and Female Authorial Subjectivity
• 2 The Ideal of "Wise Mothers and Good Wives"
• 3 Women and Weisheng in the Household
• 4 Women's Hygiene and Reproductive Health
• 4.1 Menstruation
• 4.2 Childbirth
• 5 Conclusion
• 5 Policing Girl Students
• 1 Female Students in the Late Qing
• 2 The Republican Girl Student
• 3 Debates on Girl Students
• 4 Personal Accounts from Girl Students
• 5 Conclusion
• Conclusion
• Works Cited
• Index.