Women and China's Revolutions (eBook)

Gail Hershatter (Autor)

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2018
424 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-1570-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Using gender as its analytic lens, this deeply knowledgeable text illuminates the places where the Big History of China’s past two centuries intersects with the daily lives of ordinary people. Based on formidable scholarship, Gail Hershatter’s beautifully written book will be essential reading for all students of China’s modern history.

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If we place women at the center of our account of China's last two centuries, how does this change our understanding of what happened? This deeply knowledgeable book illuminates the places where the Big History of recognizable events intersects with the daily lives of ordinary people, using gender as its analytic lens. Leading scholar Gail Hershatter asks how these events affected women in particular, and how women affected the course of these events. For instance, did women have a 1911 revolution? A socialist revolution? If so, what did those revolutions look like? Which women had them? Hershatter uses two key themes to frame her analysis. The first is the importance of women's visible and invisible labor. The labor of women in domestic and public spaces shaped China's move from empire to republic to socialist nation to rising capitalist power. The second is the symbolic work performed by gender itself. What women should do and be was a constant topic of debate during China's transformation from empire to weak state to partially occupied territory to nascent socialist republic to reform-era powerhouse. What sorts of concerns did people express through the language of gender? How did that language work, and why was it so powerful? Drawing on decades of Hershatter's groundbreaking scholarship and mastery of a range of literatures, this beautifully written book will be essential reading for all students of China's modern history.

Autor

Gail Hershatter is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her books include The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past and Women in China’s Long Twentieth Century.

Inhalt

List of Photos AcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1 The Gendered Labor of Empire, 1800–18402 Disturbances, 1840–1900 3 Revolutionary Currents, 1895–1912 4 Imagined Futures, 1912–27 5 Regulatory Regimes, 1928–37 6 Wartime Women, 1928–41 7 Wartime Women, 1935–49 8 The Socialist Construction of Women, 1949–78 9 Capitalized Women, 1978– Glossary Notes Works Cited IndexAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.9.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Issues in World and International History
• Zusatzinfo: 64 Illustrations including: - 49 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 15 Text Boxes.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Asian Studies • China • China Studies • Domestic Labor • Gender • gender and labor • gener • Modern China • Regimes • revolutions • Sexuality • Sex Work • Socialism • wartime women • Women • women and revolution • Women and socialism
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-1570-4 / 1442215704
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-1570-2 / 9781442215702