Women and Gender in Contemporary Chinese Societies (eBook)

About the Editors:Shanshan Du (Ph.D., University of Illinois) 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).Contributors: Monica Cable, Hillary Crane, William R. Jankowiak, Shao-hua Liu, Murray A. Rubinstein, Lihong Shi, Chia-lin Pao Tao, Rubie S. Watson, James Wilkerson

Preface by Rubie S. Watson Introduction: Toward Multiethnic Approaches to Women and Gender in Chinese Societies, Shanshan DuPart 1: Competing TraditionsChapter 1: The Cultural Logic that Identifies “Two” as “One”: Male-Female Dyad and Gender Equality among the Lahu of Southwest China, Shanshan DuChapter 2: Negotiating Local Tradition with Taoism: Female Ritual Specialists in the Zhuang Religion, James WilkersonChapter 3: Divine Compromises: The Mother of Grain and Gautama Buddha in De’ang Religion, Shanshan DuPart 2: Current TransformationsChapter 4: “The Wife Is the Boss”: Sex-Ratio Imbalance and Young Women’s Empowerment in Marriage in Rural Northeast China, Lihong ShiChapter 5: The Han Chinese Family: The Realignment of Parenting Ideals, Sentiments, and Practices, William JankowiakChapter 6: Butt-Bumping Wedding Performance: Han Chinese Fetishism of Dai Marriage, Monica CableChapter 7: As Mothers and Wives: Women in Patrilineal Nuosu (Yi) Society, Shao-hua Liu Part 3: Resistance from WithinChapter 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 ChenChapter 11: Art as Life/Life as Art: The Fiction and Feminist Paradigm of Li Ang, Murray A. RubinsteinIndexAbout the Contributors