The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism by Barlow, Tani

The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780822332817)

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The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism by Barlow, Tani

The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism

$42.95
The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism by Barlow, Tani

The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism

$42.95
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Tani Barlow
ISBN-10: 0822332817
ISBN-13: 9780822332817
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/25/2004
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.20w x 1.40d

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Choice 01/01/2005 pg. 939
By Tani Barlow
By Tani Barlow
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Tani E. Barlow is a historian of modern China teaching in the Women's Studies Department at the University of Washington, Seattle. She is the editor of many books, including Formations of Colonial Modernity in East Asia and New Asian Marxisms, both published by Duke University Press. Barlow is the founding senior editor of positions: east asia cultures critique, also published by Duke University Press.

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