{"product_id":"rewritng-gender-ravni-thakur-9781856494106","title":"Rewritng Gender: Reading Contemporary Chinese Women","description":"This major intervention into feminist literary theory calls for a more sociologically informed use of the concept of discourse. Ravni Thakur demonstrates how the work of Foucault and Bourdieu can deepen our understanding of gender and literary discourse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first part of the book explores orthodox gender roles and relations in China, and looks at how such an orthodoxy is constructed. The author uses Bourdieu's notion of the literary field to shed light on institutionalized literary criticism. Going on to explore women's responses to dominant gender discourses, the author looks at how these discourses are both translated into and transformed within the literary field. Analysing a wide variety of literary texts, she shows how the literature of women in post-Mao China illustrates the role of discourse itself in the construction of gender identity paradigms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA major contribution to the theorisation of women's relationship with identity politics and cultural representation, the book demonstrates throughout the necessity of reading women within the wider social context.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ravni Thakur\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1856494101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781856494106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/26\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.49d","brand":"Ravni Thakur","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437116043519,"sku":"9781856494106","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8173125c-8cbb-4e78-a7aa-1f0a60ec5a1c.jpg?v=1777159969","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rewritng-gender-ravni-thakur-9781856494106","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}