Other Modernities - Gendered Yearnings In China after Socialism (Paper)

1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-520-21079-0
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 321 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 549 g

In this analysis of three generations of women in a Chinese silk factory, Lisa Rofel brilliantly interweaves the intimate details of her observations with a broad-ranging critique of the meaning of modernity in a postmodern age.

The author based her study at a silk factory in the city of Hangzhou in eastern China. She compares the lives of three generations of women workers: those who entered the factory right around the Communist revolution in 1949, those who were youths during the Cultural Revolution of the 1970s, and those who have come of age in the Deng era. Exploring attitudes toward work, marriage, society, and culture, she convincingly connects the changing meanings of the modern in official discourse to the stories women tell about themselves and what they make of their lives.

One of the first studies to take up theoretically sophisticated issues about gender, modernity, and power based on a solid ethnographic ground, this much-needed cross-generational study will be a model for future anthropological work around the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rofel, Lisa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: Modernity and Its Discrepant Desires

PART ONE RE-COLLECTING HISTORY
1. Liberation Stories
2. The Poetics of Productivity
3· Socialist Nostalgia

PART TWO UNSETTLING MEMORIES
Interlude
4· She
5· The Politics of Authority
6. Yearnings

PART THREE SPACE AND SUBJECTIVITY
7· Allegories of Postsocialism
8. Rethinking Modernity: Space and Factory Discipline

Coda
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lisa Rofel is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.