Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities

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ISBN: 9780520221161 | 0520221168
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 1/1/2002

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A mix of accessible and illuminating historical and ethnographic studies of gender in China from the 1700s to the present.

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Introduction: Theorizing Femininities and Masculinities	p. 1
Gender and The Law (Qing Dynasty)	p. 43
Femininity in Flux: Gendered Virtue and Social Conflict in the Mid--Qing Courtroom	p. 47
Dangerous Males, Vulnerable Males, and Polluted Males: The Regulation of Masculinity in Qing Dynasty Law	p. 67
Ideals of Marriage and Family (Mid--Qing Dynasty and Early Republican Era)	p. 89
Grooming a Daughter for Marriage: Brides and Wives in the Mid--Qing Period	p. 93
"The Truths I Have Learned": Nationalism, Family Reform, and Male Identity in China's New Culture Movement, 1915-1923	p. 120
Gender in Literary Traditions (May Fourth Era to Reform Era)	p. 145
Invention and Intervention: The Making of a Female Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature	p. 149
The Self Loving the Self: Men and Connoisseurship in Modern Chinese Literature	p. 175
Dangerous Women and Dangerous Men (Late Ming Dynasty to Early Communist Period)	p. 195
Modernizing Sex, Sexing Modernity: Prostitution in Early-Twentieth-Century Shanghai	p. 199
Approximations of Chinese Bandits: Perverse Rebels, Romantic Heroes, or Frustrated Bachelors?	p. 226
The Gender of Rebels (Cultural Revolution)	p. 251
Maoist Mappings of Gender: Reassessing the Red Guards	p. 255
"Little Brothers" in the Cultural Revolution: The Worker Rebels of Shanghai	p. 269
Blood, QI, and The Gendered Body (Qing Dynasty and Reform Era)	p. 287
Blood, Body, and Gender: Medical Images of the Female Condition in China, 1600-1850	p. 291
Embodying Qi and Masculinities in Post-Mao China	p. 315
Shifting Contexts of Gender and Sexuality (Reform Era)	p. 331
Past, Perfect or Imperfect: Changing Images of the Ideal Wife	p. 335
Proper Men and Proper Women: Parental Affection in the Chinese Family	p. 361
Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity (Reform Era)	p. 381
Gender and Internal Orientalism in China	p. 385
Tradition and the Gender of Civility	p. 412
Afterword: Putting Gender at the Center	p. 435
Contributors	p. 447
Index	p. 451
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Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities

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