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Informationen zum Autor Susan Brownell is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Missouri! St. Louis. She is the author of Training the Body for China: Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic (1995). Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University. He is the author of Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China: The View from Shanghai (1991) and coeditor of Popular Protest and Political Culture in China (1994). Klappentext "The last thirty years have seen an astonishing growth in the field of gender studies for late-imperial and twentieth-century China. In this ingeniously orchestrated book! Brownell and Wasserstrom not only give us a careful bibliographic and analytical summary of that earlier work! but by assembling paired essays on matching male and female gender issues! written by an excellent roster of scholars! they have indicated the lines along which this field can expand fruitfully in the future."-Jonathan D. Spence! author of The Search for Modern China "In Chinese Feminities/Chinese Masculinities we finally have a volume that scholars of the world outside China will ignore at their peril! so thoroughly will it shake prevailing assumptions about how sexuality and gender can be historically and culturally constituted. Scholars and teachers of history! anthropology! sociology! history of medicine and science! law! politics! literature! and psychiatry! among others! should prepare for the great impact this splendid book is sure to have."-Emily Martin! author of The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction Zusammenfassung The past two centuries have witnessed tremendous upheavals in every aspect of Chinese culture and society. At the level of everyday life, some of the most remarkable transformations have occurred in the realm of gender. This title offers a mix of illuminating historical and ethnographic studies of gender from the 1700s to the present. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Thomas Laqueur Introduction: Theorizing Femininities and Masculinities Susan Brownell and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom Part I. Gender and the Law (Qing) 1. Femininity in Flux: Gendered Virtue and Social Conflict in the Mid-Qing Courtroom Janet M. Theiss 2. Dangerous Males! Vulnerable Males! and Polluted Males: The Regulation of Masculinity in Qing Dynasty Law Matthew H. Sommer Part II. Ideals of Marriage and Family (Mid-Qing and Early Republican) 3. Grooming a Daughter for Marriage: Brides and Wives in the Mid-Qing Period Susan Mann 4. "The Truths I Have Learned": Nationalism! Family Reform! and Male Identity in China's New Culture Movement! 1916-1922 Susan L. Glosser Part III. Gender in Literary Traditions (May Fourth to Reform Eras) 5. Invention and Intervention: The Making of a Female Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature Lydia H. Liu 6. The Self Loving the Self: Men and Connoisseurship in Modern Chinese Literature Wendy Larson Part IV. Dangerous Women and Dangerous Men (Late Ming to Early Communist) 7. Modernizing Sex! Sexing Modernity: Prostitution in Early-Twentieth-Century Shanghai Gail Hershatter 8. Approximations of Chinese Bandits: Perverse Rebels! Romantic Heroes! or Frustrated Bachelors? David Ownby Part V. The Gender of Rebels (Cultural Revolution) 9. Maoist Mappings of Gender: Reassessing the Red Guards Emily Honig 10. "Little Brothers" in the Cultural Revolution: The Worker Rebels of Shanghai Elizabeth J. Perry and Nara Dillon Part VI. Blood! Qi! and the Gendered Body (Qing and Reform Era) 11. Blood! Body! and Gender: Medical Images of the Female Condition in China! 1600-1850 Charlotte Furth 12. Embodying Qi and Mas...
