The question of women in Chinese feminism / Tani E. Barlow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barlow, Tani E.

Series:

Next wave (Duke University Press)

Next wave

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--China--History.

Feminism.

Feminist theory--China.

Feminist theory.

History.

China.

Physical Description:

viii, 482 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.

Summary:

The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism is a history of thinking about the subject of women in twentieth-century China. Tani E. Barlow illustrates the theories and conceptual categories that Enlightenment Chinese intellectuals have developed to describe the collectivity of women. Demonstrating how generations of these theorists have engaged with international debates over eugenics, gender, sexuality, and the psyche, Barlow argues that as an Enlightenment project, feminist debate in China is at once Chinese and international. She reads social theory, psychoanalytic thought, literary criticism, ethics, and revolutionary political ideologies to illustrate the range and scope of Chinese feminist theory's preoccupation with the problem of gender inequality. She reveals how, throughout the cataclysms of colonial modernity, revolutionary modernization, and market socialism, prominent Chinese feminists have gathered up the remainders of the past and formed them into social and ethical arguments, categories, and political positions, ceaselessly reshaping progressive Enlightenment sexual liberation theory.

Contents:

History and catachresis

Theorizing "women"

Foundations of progressive Chinese feminism

Woman and colonial modernity in the early thought of Ding Ling

Woman under Maoist nationalism in the thought of Ding Ling

Socialist modernization and the market feminism of Li Xiaojiang

Dai Jinhua, globalization and nineties poststructuralist feminism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [443]-470) and index.

ISBN:

0822332817

0822332701

OCLC:

53006841