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The Subject of Gender
Daughters and Mothers in Urban China
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2007
Summary
Women in urban China have lived through decades of political turbulence, extensive socio-economic change, and the transformation of gender practices, expectations, and relationships. Among these is the mother-daughter relationship, one that has profound influence on women's gendered subjectivity but one that has been overlooked in research on gender and family in China. In The Subject of Gender, Harriet Evans reflects on how women in urban China make sense of the shifts in practices and representations of gender that frame their lives and how their self-identification as mothers and daughters contributes to the redefinition of those practices. Based on the memories and experiences of educated and professional women of different ages, this book discusses the mother-daughter relationship through various themes: separation, communication, domestic/public boundaries, male privilege, the sexed body, reproduction, and filial responsibilities. This fascinating work draws on feminist and critical theory and on anthropological and historical research to analyze the changing articulations of gender subjectivity that emerge from the links between discursive shifts, generational difference, and individual experiences of the mother-daughter relationship.
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Copyright Year
2007
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-5478-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-4572-6
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
235
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Dedication No access
Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
1 Encounters with Mothers and Daughters No access Pages 1 - 40
2 Lives Apart No access Pages 41 - 68
3 Communicative Bonds No access Pages 69 - 100
4 Negotiating Gender Boundaries between "Inner" and "Outer" No access Pages 101 - 124
5 Difference and Discrimination No access Pages 125 - 144
6 The Gender of the Sexed Body No access Pages 145 - 168
7 Reproducing Filiality No access Pages 169 - 198
8 The Changing Subject of Gender No access Pages 199 - 204
