Embodying middle class gender aspirations : perspectives from China's privileged young women
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Embodying middle class gender aspirations : perspectives from China's privileged young women
(Gender, sexualities and culture in Asia / editor-in-chiefs, Stevi Jackson, Olivia Khoo)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2021
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book takes a feminist approach to analyse the lives of well-educated urban Chinese women, who were raised to embody the ideals of a modern Chinese nation and are largely the beneficiaries of the policy changes of the post-Mao era. It explores young women's gendered attitudes to and experiences of marriage, reproductive choices, careers and aspirations for a good life. It sheds light on what keeps mainstream Chinese middle-class women conforming to the current gender regime. It illuminates the contradictory effects of neoliberal techniques deployed by a familial authoritarian regime on these women's striving for success in urban China, and argues that, paradoxically, women's individualistic determination to succeed has often led them onto the path of conformity by pursuing exemplary norms which fit into the party-state's agenda.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Researching China's Lucky Generation: The Post 80s.- Chapter 2. Women, Family and the Nation in Contemporary China.- Chapter 3. Premarital abortion, what is the harm? The Responsibilisation of women's pregnancy among China's 'privileged' daughters.- Chapter 4. The Right Time for Childbirth: The Naturalisation of Motherhood within Marriage.- Chapter 5. The Gendered Construction of Exemplary Middle-Class Identity: The Hegemony of Chenggong (success).- Chapter 6. Reality Bites: Gendered Experiences of Marriage and Work.- Chapter 7. Concluding Discussion: Living with Contradictions.
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