Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies
Beauties at Work
Seiten
2016
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1st ed. 2017
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-50574-3 (ISBN)
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-50574-3 (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’. Whilst men benefit from symbolic and bureaucratic power, women professionals skilfully enact indirect power in a game of domination and resistance.
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.
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.- Chapter 2. Toward a Local Feminist Understanding of Gender and Sexuality.- Chapter 3. The Weaker Sex.- Chapter 4. Sex in Work.- Chapter 5. Sex as Work.- Chapter 6. Sisterhood.- Chapter 7. Marriage, Family and Divorce.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.11.2016 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Gender, Development and Social Change |
| Zusatzinfo | XIII, 158 p. |
| Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| Schlagworte | China • commodification • Gender • Naturalization • Neoliberalism • Objectification • organization • Power • Sexuality • Subversion • Work |
| ISBN-10 | 1-137-50574-5 / 1137505745 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-137-50574-3 / 9781137505743 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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