Barlow / Grewal / Kaplan The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism

1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8539-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 494 Seiten

Reihe: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

Barlow documents the history of “woman” as a category in twentieth century Chinese history, tracing the question of gender through various phases in the literary career of Ding Ling, a major modern Chinese writer.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barlow, Tani

Grewal, Inderpal

Kaplan, Caren

Wiegman, Robyn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.