Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations : Perspectives from China's Privileged Young Women

Kailing Xie

ISBN 10: 9811611386 / ISBN 13: 9789811611384

Editore: Springer Nature Singapore, Springer Nature Singapore, 2021

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book takes a feminist approach to analyse the lives of well-educated urban Chinese women, who were raised to embody the ideals of a modern Chinese nation and are largely the beneficiaries of the policy changes of the post-Mao era. It explores young women's gendered attitudes to and experiences of marriage, reproductive choices, careers and aspirations for a good life. It sheds light on what keeps mainstream Chinese middle-class women conforming to the current gender regime. It illuminates the contradictory effects of neoliberal techniques deployed by a familial authoritarian regime on these women's striving for success in urban China, and argues that, paradoxically, women's individualistic determination to succeed has often led them onto the path of conformity by pursuing exemplary norms which fit into the party-state's agenda.

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• Titolo: Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations : Perspectives from China's Privileged Young Women
• Editore: Springer Nature Singapore, Springer Nature Singapore
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9811611386
• ISBN 13: 9789811611384
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 216 L x 153 A x 23 P (millimetri) 216 millimetri di larghezza per 153 millimetri di altezza per 23 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 538 grammi

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This book takes a feminist approach to analyse the lives of well-educated urban Chinese women, who were raised to embody the ideals of a modern Chinese nation and are largely the beneficiaries of the policy changes of the post-Mao era. It explores young women’s gendered attitudes to and experiences of marriage, reproductive choices, careers and aspirations for a good life. It sheds light on what keeps mainstream Chinese middle-class women conforming to the current gender regime. It illuminates the contradictory effects of neoliberal techniques deployed by a familial authoritarian regime on these women’s striving for success in urban China, and argues that, paradoxically, women’s individualistic determination to succeed has often led them onto the path of conformity by pursuing exemplary norms which fit into the party-state’s agenda. 

Informazioni sull?autore

Kailing Xie (PhD) is a Teaching Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK. She gained her doctorate at the Centre for Women’s Studies, University of York. She was awarded the 2017 Early Career Researcher Prize by the British Association for Chinese Studies for her article ‘Premarital Abortion, What is the Harm? The Responsibilisation of Women’s Pregnancy among China’s “Privileged” Daughters’. Her broader research interests include gender, identity, and nationalism against the backdrop of China’s rise on the global stage.