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Chinese femininities, Chinese masculinities [electronic resource] : a reader / edited by Susan Brownell and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom ; foreword by Thomas Laqueur.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Asia--Local studies/global themes ; 4 | Asia (Columbia University. East Asian Institute) ; 4. | ACLS Humanities E-BookPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.Description: xiv, 460 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject(s): Online resources:
Contents:
pt. 1. Gender and the law (Qing dynasty). Femininity in flux: gendered virtue and social conflict in the mid-Qing courtroom / Jane t M. Theiss. Dangerous males, vulnerable males, and polluted males: the regulation of masculinity in Qing dynasty law / Matthew H. Somme r -- pt. 2. Ideals of marriage and family (mid-Qing dynasty and e arly Republican era). Grooming a daughter for marriage: brides and w ives in the mid-Qing period / Susan Mann. "The truths I have lear ned": nationalism, family reform, and male identity in China's New Cult ure Movement, 1915-1923 / Susan L. Glosser --
pt. 3. Gender in literary traditions (May fourth era to Reform er a). Invention and intervention: the making of a female tradition in modern Chinese literature / Lydia H. Liu. The self loving the self: men and connoisseurship in modern Chinese literature / Wendy L arson -- pt. 4. Dangerous women and dangerous men (late Ming dyna sty to early Communist period). Modernizing sex, sexing modernity: p rostitution in early-twentieth-century Shanghai / Gail Hershatter. Approximations of Chinese bandits: perverse rebels, romantic heroes , or frustrated bachelors? / David Ownby --
pt. 5. The gender of rebels (Cultural Revolution). Maoist mapp ings of gender: reassessing the Red Guards / Emily Honig. "Little brothers" in the Cultural Revolution: the worker rebels of Shanghai / Elizabeth J. Perry, Nara Dillon -- pt. 6. Blood, qi, and t he gendered body (Qing dynasty and Reform era). Blood, body, and gen der: medical images of the female condition in China, 1600-1850 / Ch arlotte Furth. Embodying qi and masculinities in post-Mao China / Nancy N. Chen --
pt. 7. Shifting contexts of gender and sexuality (Reform era). Pa st, perfect or imperfect: changing images of the ideal wife / Harrie t Evans. Proper men and proper women: parental affection in the Chin ese family / William Jankowiak -- pt. 8. Gender, sexuality, an d ethnicity (Reform era). Gender and internal Orientalism in China / Louisa Schein. Tradition and the gender of civility / Ralph L itzinger -- Afterword: putting gender at the center / Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Susan Brownell.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Gender and the law (Qing dynasty). Femininity in flux: gendered virtue and social conflict in the mid-Qing courtroom / Jane t M. Theiss. Dangerous males, vulnerable males, and polluted males: the regulation of masculinity in Qing dynasty law / Matthew H. Somme r -- pt. 2. Ideals of marriage and family (mid-Qing dynasty and e arly Republican era). Grooming a daughter for marriage: brides and w ives in the mid-Qing period / Susan Mann. "The truths I have lear ned": nationalism, family reform, and male identity in China's New Cult ure Movement, 1915-1923 / Susan L. Glosser --

pt. 3. Gender in literary traditions (May fourth era to Reform er a). Invention and intervention: the making of a female tradition in modern Chinese literature / Lydia H. Liu. The self loving the self: men and connoisseurship in modern Chinese literature / Wendy L arson -- pt. 4. Dangerous women and dangerous men (late Ming dyna sty to early Communist period). Modernizing sex, sexing modernity: p rostitution in early-twentieth-century Shanghai / Gail Hershatter. Approximations of Chinese bandits: perverse rebels, romantic heroes , or frustrated bachelors? / David Ownby --

pt. 5. The gender of rebels (Cultural Revolution). Maoist mapp ings of gender: reassessing the Red Guards / Emily Honig. "Little brothers" in the Cultural Revolution: the worker rebels of Shanghai / Elizabeth J. Perry, Nara Dillon -- pt. 6. Blood, qi, and t he gendered body (Qing dynasty and Reform era). Blood, body, and gen der: medical images of the female condition in China, 1600-1850 / Ch arlotte Furth. Embodying qi and masculinities in post-Mao China / Nancy N. Chen --

pt. 7. Shifting contexts of gender and sexuality (Reform era). Pa st, perfect or imperfect: changing images of the ideal wife / Harrie t Evans. Proper men and proper women: parental affection in the Chin ese family / William Jankowiak -- pt. 8. Gender, sexuality, an d ethnicity (Reform era). Gender and internal Orientalism in China / Louisa Schein. Tradition and the gender of civility / Ralph L itzinger -- Afterword: putting gender at the center / Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Susan Brownell.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2006. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of a ccess: Intranet. This volume is made possible by a grant from the An drew W. Mellon Foundation.

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