Keywords:
Femininity, China.
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Masculinity, China.
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Sex role, China.
Notes:
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.
Pages:
xiv, 460 p.
ISBN:
1-417-50818-3
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