Gender and sexuality in modern Chinese history
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Gender and sexuality in modern Chinese history
(New approaches to Asian history)
Cambridge University Press, 2011
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-224) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Gender and sexuality have been neglected topics in the history of Chinese civilization, despite the fact that there is a massive amount of historical evidence on the subject. China's late imperial government was arguably more concerned about gender and sexuality among its subjects than any other pre-modern state. How did these and other late imperial legacies shape twentieth-century notions of gender and sexuality in modern China? Susan Mann answers this by focusing on state policy, ideas about the physical body and notions of sexuality and difference in China's recent history, from medicine to the theater to the gay bars; from law to art and sports. More broadly, the book shows how changes in attitudes toward sex and gender in China during the twentieth century have cast a new light on the process of becoming modern, while simultaneously challenging the universalizing assumptions of Western modernity.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Gender, Sexuality, and the State: 1. Family and state: the separation of the sexes
- 2. Traffic in women and the problem of single men
- 3. Gender relations in politics and law
- Part II. Gender, Sexuality, and the Body: 4. The body in medicine, art, and sport
- 5. Adorning, displaying, concealing, and altering the body
- 6. Abandoning the body: female suicide and female infanticide
- Part III. Gender, Sexuality, and the 'Other': 7. Same-sex relationships and transgendered performance
- 8. Sexuality in the creative imagination
- 9. Sexuality and the 'other'
- Conclusion: gender, sexuality, and citizenship.
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