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Being Single in the City : Cultural Geographies of Gendered Urban Space in Asia / Christiane Brosius, [and three others].

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Brosius, Christiane, author.
Series:
Heidelberg studies on transculturality.
Heidelberg studies on transculturality
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Cultural fusion.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (259 pages).
Place of Publication:
Heidelberg : Heidelberg University Publishing, 2024.
Summary:
What does it mean to be a single woman in India or China? Being single is an advancing trend, also in Asia. There is an ambivalent fascination with the single woman as a new type of empowered, pleasure-seeking, competent lifestyle-surfer, and dedicated career-maker. And yet, the single woman is also stigmatized and isolated, discriminated against or stereotyped as someone who challenges social norms. Place matters for singlehood. This book focuses on the urban fabric of India, mainland China, and Hong Kong. For it is here that social, economic, cultural, and political transformations become manifest and new possibilities of living are tested and vividly contested.
Was bedeutet es, eine alleinstehende Frau in Indien oder China zu sein? Singles sind auf dem Vormarsch, auch in Asien. Es gibt eine ambivalente Faszination für die alleinstehende Frau als neuen Typus der selbstbewussten, kompetenten "Lifestyle-Surferin" und engagierten Karrieremacherin. Und doch wird die alleinstehende Frau auch stigmatisiert, diskriminiert oder als jemand stereotypisiert, der soziale Normen herausfordert. Orte sind wichtig für das Singledasein: dieses Buch konzentriert sich insbesondere auf urbane Räume Indiens, des chinesischen Festlandes und Hongkongs. Schließlich manifestieren sich hier soziale, wirtschaftliche, kulturelle und politische Transformationen, werden neue Lebensmöglichkeiten erprobt und lebhaft diskutiert.
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