Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese History

Informationen zum Autor Susan Mann is Professor Emerita of History at the University of California, Davis. She has written many books including The Talented Women of the Zhang Family (2007) and Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century (1997). Klappentext This book tracks the transformation of sexuality and gender in China, from late imperial times to modern times. Zusammenfassung China's late imperial government was arguably more concerned about gender and sexuality among its subjects than any other pre-modern state. How did this legacy shape notions of gender and sexuality in modern China? Susan Mann shows how attitudes toward sex and gender in China have changed during the twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Gender, Sexuality, and the State: 1. Family and state: the separation of the sexes; 2. Traffic in women and the problem of single men; 3. Gender relations in politics and law; Part II. Gender, Sexuality, and the Body: 4. The body in medicine, art, and sport; 5. Adorning, displaying, concealing, and altering the body; 6. Abandoning the body: female suicide and female infanticide; Part III. Gender, Sexuality, and the 'Other': 7. Same-sex relationships and transgendered performance; 8. Sexuality in the creative imagination; 9. Sexuality and the 'other'; Conclusion: gender, sexuality, and citizenship.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Mann, Susan L. Mann, Susan L. (University of California Mann
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.09.2011
• EAN: 9780521865142
• ISBN: 978-0-521-86514-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: New Approaches to Asian Histor
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories