Chinese femininities, Chinese masculinities
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited by Susan Brownell and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom ; foreword by Thomas Laqueur.
Contributors: Brownell, Susan.; Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
Subjects: Sex role -- China; Femininity -- China; Masculinity -- China
Table of contents: title: pt. 1.; title: Gender and the law (Qing dynasty).; title: Femininity in flux: gendered virtue and social conflict in the mid-Qing courtroom -- Janet M. Theiss.; title: Dangerous males, vulnerable males, and polluted males: the regulation of masculinity in Qing dynasty law -- Matthew H. Sommer -- pt. 2.; title: Ideals of marriage and family (mid-Qing dynasty and early Republican era).; title: Grooming a daughter for marriage: brides and wives in the mid-Qing period -- Susan Mann.; title: "The truths I have learned": nationalism, family reform, and male identity in China's New Culture Movement, 1915-1923 -- Susan L. Glosser -- pt. 3.; title: Gender in literary traditions (May fourth era to Reform era).; title: Invention and intervention: the making of a female tradition in modern Chinese literature -- Lydia H. Liu. -- The; title: self loving the self: men and connoisseurship in modern Chinese literature -- Wendy Larson -- pt. 4.; title: Dangerous women and dangerous men (late Ming dynasty to early Communist period).; title: Modernizing sex, sexing modernity: prostitution in early-twentieth-century Shanghai -- Gail Hershatter.; title: Approximations of Chinese bandits: perverse rebels, romantic heroes, or frustrated bachelors? -- David Ownby -- pt. 5. The; title: gender of rebels (Cultural Revolution).; title: Maoist mappings of gender: reassessing the Red Guards -- Emily Honig.; title: "Little brothers" in the Cultural Revolution: the worker rebels of Shanghai -- Elizabeth J. Perry, -- Nara Dillon -- pt. 6.; title: Blood, qi, and the gendered body (Qing dynasty and Reform era).; title: Blood, body, and gender: medical images of the female condition in China, 1600-1850 -- Charlotte Furth.; title: Embodying qi and masculinities in post-Mao China -- Nancy N. Chen -- pt. 7.; title: Shifting contexts of gender and sexuality (Reform era). Past, perfect or imperfect: changing images of the ideal wife -- Harriet Evans.; title: Proper men and proper women: parental affection in the Chinese family -- William Jankowiak -- pt. 8.; title: Gender, sexuality, and ethnicity (Reform era).; title: Gender and internal Orientalism in China -- Louisa Schein.; title: Tradition and the gender of civility -- Ralph Litzinger -- Afterword:; title: putting gender at the center-- Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom,-- Susan Brownell.