Women and Gender in Contemporary Chinese Societies -

Women and Gender in Contemporary Chinese Societies

Beyond Han Patriarchy

Shanshan Du, Ya-chen Chen (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
252 Seiten
2011
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-4580-7 (ISBN)
119,95 inkl. MwSt
Recent attention to historical, geographic, and class differences in the studies of women and gender in China has expanded our understanding of the diversity and complexity of gendered China. Nevertheless, the ethnic dimension of this subject matter remains largely overlooked, particularly concerning women’s conditions and gender status. Consequently, the patriarchy and its oppression of women among the Han, the ethnic majority in China, are often inaccurately or erroneously associated with the whole gendered heritage of China, epitomized by the infamous traditions of footbinding and female-infanticide. Such academic and popular predisposition belies the fact that gender systems in China span a wide spectrum, ranging from extreme Han patriarchy to Lahu gender-egalitarianism.
The authors contributing to this book have collectively initiated a systematic effort to bridge the gap between understanding the majority Han and ethnic minorities in regard to women and gender in contemporary Chinese societies. By achieving a quantitative balance between articles on the Han majority and those on ethnic minorities, this book transcends the ghettoization of ethnic minorities in the studies of Chinese women and gender. The eleven chapters of this volume are divided into three sections which jointly challenge the traditions and norms of Han patriarchy from various perspectives. The first section focuses on gender traditions among ethnic minorities which compete with the norms of Han patriarchy. The second section emphasizes the impact of radical social transformation on gender systems and practices among both Han and ethnic minorities. The third section underscores socio-cultural diversity and complexity in resistance to Han patriarchal norms from a broad perspective. This book complements previous scholarship on Chinese women and gender by expanding our investigative lens beyond Han patriarchy and providing images of the multiethnic landscape of China. By identifying the Han as an ethnically marked category and by bringing to the forefront the diverse gender systems of ethnic minorities, this book encourages an increasing awareness of, and sensitivity to the cross-cultural diversity of gendered China both in academia and beyond.

Shanshan Du is associate professor of anthropology at Tulane University. She authored Chopsticks Only Work in Pairs: Gender Unity and Gender Equality among the Lahu of Southwest China (Columbia University Press) and co-edited “Negotiating Women's Roles and Power: The Practice of World Religions in Contemporary Asia” (a special issue of Religion). She is a recipient of fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and the Mellon Foundation/ACLS. Ya-chen Chen is assistant professor of foreign literature and Director of Chinese Language Program at Clark University, and formerly affiliated with the City University of New York (with the same titles and Asian Studies Director), in both of which this book was prepared. Her academic books include Farewell My Concubine: Same-Sex Readings and Cross-Cultural Dialogues (2004); Women in Taiwan: Sociocultural Perspectives (2009); Higher Education in East Asia: Neoliberalism and the Professoriate (2009); and The Many Dimensions of Chinese Feminism (2011).

Preface by Rubie S. Watson
Introduction: Toward Multiethnic Approaches to Women and Gender in Chinese Societies, Shanshan Du
Part 1: Competing Traditions
Chapter 1: The Cultural Logic that Identifies “Two” as “One”: Male-Female Dyad and Gender Equality among the Lahu of Southwest China, Shanshan Du
Chapter 2: Negotiating Local Tradition with Taoism: Female Ritual Specialists in the Zhuang Religion, James Wilkerson
Chapter 3: Divine Compromises: The Mother of Grain and Gautama Buddha in De’ang Religion, Shanshan Du
Part 2: Current Transformations
Chapter 4: “The Wife Is the Boss”: Sex-Ratio Imbalance and Young Women’s Empowerment in Marriage in Rural Northeast China, Lihong Shi
Chapter 5: The Han Chinese Family: The Realignment of Parenting Ideals, Sentiments, and Practices, William Jankowiak
Chapter 6: Butt-Bumping Wedding Performance: Han Chinese Fetishism of Dai Marriage, Monica Cable
Chapter 7: As Mothers and Wives: Women in Patrilineal Nuosu (Yi) Society, Shao-hua Liu
Part 3: Resistance from Within
Chapter 8: The Nude Parade of 1927: Nudity and Women’s Liberation During the Republican Era, Chia-lin Pao Tao
Chapter 9: Resistance through Transformation? The Meanings of Gender Reversals in a Taiwanese Buddhist Monastery, Hillary Crane  
Chapter 10: “Chinese Cinematic Martial Arts Feminism” and Its Incompletion: Case Studies of A Touch of Zen, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and The Banquet, Ya-Chen Chen
Chapter 11: Art as Life/Life as Art: The Fiction and Feminist Paradigm of Li Ang, Murray A. Rubinstein
Index
About the Contributors

Co-Autor Monica Cable, Hillary K. Crane
Vorwort Rubie Watson
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 161 x 239 mm
Gewicht 485 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-7391-4580-0 / 0739145800
ISBN-13 978-0-7391-4580-7 / 9780739145807
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