Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies (eBook)
XIII, 158 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-137-50575-0 (ISBN)
This book offers the first ethnographic account of the experiences of highly educated young professional women, hailed by the Chinese media as 'white-collar beauties'. It exposes the organizational mechanisms - naturalization, objectification and commodification of women - that wield gendered and sexual control in post-Mao workplaces. Whilst men benefit from symbolic and bureaucratic power, women professionals skilfully enact indirect power in a game of domination and resistance. The sources of women's subversion are grounded in their only-child upbringing which breaks the patrilineal base of familial patriarchy fostering an unprecedented ambition in personal development, gender as inherently relational and a role-oriented system, and inner-outer cultural boundaries as signifiers of moral agency. This raises a new feminist inquiry about the agents for social change. Through a nuanced analysis grounded in the socio-cultural locality, this book throws fresh light upon the ways in which gender, sexuality and power could be theorized beyond a Euro-American reality.
Jieyu Liu is Deputy Director of the SOAS China Institute, SOAS University of London, UK. In 2015, she was awarded a five-year European Research Council grant to examine family and sexual relations in East Asia.
This book offers the first ethnographic account of the experiences of highly educated young professional women, hailed by the Chinese media as 'white-collar beauties'. It exposes the organizational mechanisms - naturalization, objectification and commodification of women - that wield gendered and sexual control in post-Mao workplaces. Whilst men benefit from symbolic and bureaucratic power, women professionals skilfully enact indirect power in a game of domination and resistance. The sources of women's subversion are grounded in their only-child upbringing which breaks the patrilineal base of familial patriarchy fostering an unprecedented ambition in personal development, gender as inherently relational and a role-oriented system, and inner-outer cultural boundaries as signifiers of moral agency. This raises a new feminist inquiry about the agents for social change. Through a nuanced analysis grounded in the socio-cultural locality, this book throws fresh light upon the ways in which gender, sexuality and power could be theorized beyond a Euro-American reality.
Jieyu Liu is Deputy Director of the SOAS China Institute, SOAS University of London, UK. In 2015, she was awarded a five-year European Research Council grant to examine family and sexual relations in East Asia.
Chapter 1 Becoming White Collar Beauties in Urban China 14
Chapter 2 Toward A Local Feminist Understanding of Gender and Sexuality 36
Chapter 3 The Weaker Sex 59
Chapter 4 Sex in Work 83
Chapter 5 Sex as Work 103
Chapter 6 Sisterhood 126
Chapter 7 Marriage, Family and Divorce 146
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 8.11.2016 |
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Reihe/Serie | Gender, Development and Social Change | Gender, Development and Social Change |
Zusatzinfo | XIII, 158 p. |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
Schlagworte | China • commodification • Gender • Naturalization • Neoliberalism • Objectification • organization • Power • Sexuality • Subversion • Work |
ISBN-10 | 1-137-50575-3 / 1137505753 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-137-50575-0 / 9781137505750 |
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