Other Genders, Other Sexualities?

Other Genders, Other Sexualities? Chinese Differences

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Publisher's Synopsis

Interrogating the totalizing perspectives on Chinese gender studies that typically treat China only in binary opposition to the West, "Other Genders, Other Sexualities" focuses on the dynamics of difference within China and probes the complex history of Chinese sexuality and gender formations. The centerpiece of this special issue is the first English translation of Li Xiaojiang's 1983 post-Mao feminist retheorization of women's emancipation and sexual differences. Other topics addressed include the emergence of the "modern girl" in early twentieth-century China, the legacy of socialist gender practices in rural cultures, transgender performance on Chinese television, the political ambivalence of Chinese gay identity in the cinema, and early Chinese gender configurations in East Han art and writing. By recognizing the gender implications of China's competing economic ideologies (from Maoism to socialism to neoliberalism to transnational capitalism), this issue generates critical insights and new perspectives for the study of Chinese history, gender and sexuality, and feminist culture.

Contributors:
Hongwei Bao, Tani Barlow, Dong Limin, Chengzhou He, Sarah Kile, Li Xiaojiang, Lingzhen Wang, Yu Shiling

Lingzhen Wang is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Personal Matters: Women's Autobiographical Practice in Twentieth-Century China.

Book information

ISBN: 9780822367871
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Imprint: Duke University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 306.70951
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Weight: 454g
Height: 226mm
Width: 196mm
Spine width: 13mm