Subject of Gender Daughters and Mothers in Urban China

Informationen zum Autor Harriet Evans is professor emerita of Chinese cultural studies at the University of Westminster and visiting professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. Klappentext Author Harriet Evans discusses mother-daughter relationships in urban China, reflecting on how women make sense of the shifts in practices and representations of gender that frame their lives, and how their self-identification as mothers and daughters contributes to the redefinition of those practices. Based on the memories and experiences of educated and professional women of different ages, the mother-daughter relationship is discussed through various themes: separation, communication, domestic/public boundaries, male privilege, the sexed body, reproduction, and filial responsibilities. Zusammenfassung Discusses mother-daughter relationships in urban China. This book reflects on how women make sense of the shifts in practices and representations of gender that frame their lives! and how their self-identification as mothers and daughters contributes to the redefinition of those practices. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Encounters with Mothers and Daughters Chapter 2: Lives Apart Chapter 3: Communicative Bonds Chapter 4: Negotiating Gender Boundaries between "Inner" and "Outer" Chapter 5: Difference and Discrimination Chapter 6: The Gender of the Sexed Body Chapter 7: Reproducing Filiality Chapter 8: The Changing Subject of Gender

Product details

• Authors: Harriet Evans
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 14.12.2007
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories
• EAN: 9780742554771
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-5477-1
• Pages: 248
• Dimensions (packing): 15.2 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm
• Series: Asian Voices; Asian Voices (Hardcover); Asian Voices
• Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies; Gender studies: women; Gender studies: women and girls; Asian studies;China studies; China studies