Feminist Explorations of Urban China

This book explores gender topics related to social transitions and social struggles in the context of the urban transformations accompanying the evolving political economy of China's New Era, here defined as the period since 2017.

List of contents

1. Feminist Explorations of Urban China Part I: Social Transitions: Contesting the Urban Middle Class 2. Gender Dynamics of Hypergamy: Insights from Parents in Shanghai's Matchmaking Corner 3. Queer Exploration of a Mobile China: The Transnational Journey of Queer Women from China 4. Urbanizing Entrepreneurial Women in China: The Chinese State, Female Entrepreneurs and Urban Redevelopment 5. Anti-Marriage Feminism on Weibo: Alternative Discursive Space and Obscured Structure of Feeling Part II: Social Struggles: The Everyday Lives of the Working Class 6. Memory in Action: Elderly Women Protesting the Demolition of a Temple 7. Spatialized Emotional Labor and Female Sellers' Work in Shanghai: The Case of the W Store of Ai Brand 8. The Female Genealogies of Grassroots Families: Mother-Daughter Relationships during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Shanghai's Workers' New Villages in the New Era 9. Class and Gender: The Deformation of Urban Space in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction

About the author

Penn Tsz Ting Ip is Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities, Language and Translation at the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, and a core member of the SSHRC-funded partnership project "Urbanization, Gender and the Global South: A Transformative Knowledge Network (GenUrb)" based at the City Institute, York University, Toronto.

Summary

This book explores gender topics related to social transitions and social struggles in the context of the urban transformations accompanying the evolving political economy of China’s New Era, here defined as the period since 2017.

Product details

• Authors: Penn Tsz Ting Ip
• Assisted by: Penn Tsz Ting Ip (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.02.2025
• EAN: 9781032731964
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3273196-4
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; China, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Regional Studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional / International studies, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Urban communities, women;rrban China;feminist;gender;Xi Jinping;New Era