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Once Iron Girls
Essays on Gender by Post-Mao Chinese Literary Women
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2009
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Available in English for the first time, Once Iron Girls: Essays on Gender by Post-Mao Chinese Literary Women brings together twenty-five essays by seven critically acclaimed writers, whose fiction and poetry have become classics in modern Chinese literature. Poetic, metaphoric, and sometimes playful and satiric, the essays discuss the material reality wherein Chinese women live and function. Reflecting on their experiences under Mao and in post-Maoist China, these essays vividly demonstrate that, despite equality of the sexes being the official position and women working equally demanding jobs as men, women are still considered servile to their male counterparts. Taken together, the collection shows Chinese women struggling for identity by discussing the issues that are important in their lives. Unlike Western feminists, they do not want to be seen as different from their male counterparts. Nor do they want to fall into Chinese terminology of being the same as men. Rather, these essays show that women want to be seen first and foremost as human and then as female. By showcasing the politics and poetics of Chinese women's essays to an English audience, Hui Wu's translations uncover the philosophy and purpose behind the literature of a unique generation of Chinese women, whose life experience finds no parallel in China and certainly not in the West.
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-3421-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3423-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
154
Product type
Edited Book
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CONTENTS No access
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS No access
TRANSLATOR’S NOTE No access
INTRODUCTION No access Pages 1 - 14
A WRITER’S FATE No access
ANDROGYNY No access
WHEN CAN WOMEN START ENJOYING LIFE? No access
SEEKING AMAZING WOMEN No access
OBEDIENCE VERSUS DISOBEDIENCE No access
WOMEN’S EYES No access
ON WOMEN No access
MAY MY DREAM COME TRUE No access
GENDER ROLES IN COMMERCIALS No access
I DON’T WANT TO BE A WOMAN No access
THREE AUTUMNAL PHASES IN A DAY No access
WOMEN DON’T CRY No access
WOMEN’S FOOTPRINTS OF PAIN No access
A PINK HUMOR No access
MY VIEW ON WOMEN No access
WOMEN’S “SAMENESS” AND “DIFFERENCE” No access
ON “FEMININITY” No access
ONE IS NOT BORN A WOMAN No access
WOMEN AND THE CRISIS No access
SHADOW OF THE CHASTE TEMPLE No access
GIVE HER SOME SPACE No access
A MIRROR OF ONE’S OWN No access
WE NEED TWO WORLDS No access
A PREFACE FOR MYSELF No access
THE “GRAND” REALM VERSUS THE “TRUE” REALM No access
