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This is an introductory course on gender perspectives and feminist studies. There are four parts of the course. First, the course starts by introducing the distinction between sex and gender and stating why gender matters. By using life-stage analysis, representations from pop culture, and the lived experiences of Chinese people in the eras of Revolution and Reform, this course enables students to intellectually understand that gender roles- femininity and masculinity- are actually in the process of being constructed based on a certain social institutions underpinned by hierarchical power relations. Field observations will be conducted to foster students' sensitivity and capacity to use gender perspectives in examining their everyday lives. Second, the course then turns to issues of sexuality. The sociality of sexuality in various cultures and historical times will be discussed. LGBTQ groups’ situation and voices are to be presented followed by an examination of the arguments that heterosexuality is a socially made hegemony and sexuality is fluid. Part Three introduces students to the three topics related to “Feminism”, namely, transnational and local movements, theories of women’s and other minorities' liberation, as well as Feminism as research methodology and epistemology. In the final phase we will discuss two lived gender/sexuality related cases related to the intersection with other structural forces such as national development, class formation, modernity, personal liberation, and etc.
This volume develops new strategies for reading, contextualizing, and interpreting the long Chinese tradition of women’s biography. Drawing upon a vast array of sources—from formal biography to poetry, letters, and oral interviews—the authors examine how women’s biography served particular cultural, political, and world-making projects, and how it illuminates these projects in new ways by highlighting tensions within and between them. Part One highlights the key methodological and philosophical issue. Part Two identifies and probes the logic of the world-making projects. Part Three probes the gaps between formal biographies and the greatly varied and largely untapped aggregate of texts on women’s lives.
本书通过对台湾雇主和家务移工进行的田野调查形成，除分析劳雇双方的互动关系，也触及台湾族群政治、阶级形构与性别关系的转变。本书探讨了家务移工现象所带来的“女主人”的家庭与“女佣”的向上的阶级流动，但也指出了家务移工产生的种族与阶级的不平等，从国家管制与大众论述两个层面描述了家务移工是如何被建构为种族和阶级的他者。本书还描述了“女佣”与“女主人”在各自家庭生活中的处境和地位，以及父权社会强行赋予他们的女性特质的延续。
This book is based on fieldwork on interviewing Taiwan employers and housework employees. In addition to analyzing the interaction between employers and employees, it touches on the transformation of Taiwan's ethnic politics, class structure and gender relations. This book not only explores the upward class mobility of the mistresses’ family and the maids brought about by the phenomenon of housework employees, but also points out the racial and class inequality caused by such phenomenon. It describes how housework employees are constructed as the “other” from the perspectives of state control and public voice. The book also describes the situation and status of maids and mistresses in their family life.
波伏娃在本书中发出了“女人是什么”的提问，并做出了女人相对于绝对主体的男人是“他者”的观察。卷I探究了女人被界定为他者的原因，卷II按女人的观点描绘固有的世界，以期探明女人在竭力打破非本质的处境的过程中遇到的问题。波伏娃采用的观点是存在主义的道德观——女性并非试图将男人拖入内在性的领域，而是想摆脱两性关系的束缚，追求超越性以确立自己并实现自由。波伏娃认为，女性不应被动地等待男性赋予女性超越性的机会，而应主动创造新的处境。
This book challenges the usual emphasis on sexual dimorphism and reproduction, providing a unique perspective on the various forms of socialization of people who are neither male nor female. Bringing together historical and anthropological studies, this book collects 10 essays that are dedicated to the observation on the third sex, covering how Byzantine palace eunuchs and Indian hijras met the criteria of special social roles that necessitated practices such as self-castration, and how intimate and forbidden desires were expressed among the Dutch Sodomites in the early modern period, the Sapphists of eighteenth-century England or the so-called hermaphrodite-homosexuals of nineteenth-century Europe and America, etc.
The notion of sexual citizenship comes from the author’s conviction that sexuality is central to citizenship. This book examines sexual citizenship in a number of key sites of contemporary sexual politics- the market, marriage, the military, the city, the family- and focuses on a number of key theoretical debates on sexuality in relation to consumption, space and globalization. Critiquing existing theories of sexuality and citizenship, and drawing on a wide range of theoretical perspectives, this book addresses both the promises and limitations of using the discourses of citizenship in the context of contemporary sexual politics.
This book draws on the cases of 266 immigrants in South China to examine the effect of mass rural-to-urban migration on family and gender relationships, with a specific focus on changes in men and masculinities. The book examines the masculine compromise made by the migrant men in their roles of lover, husband, father, and son, as well as their struggle to preserve the gender boundary and their symbolic dominance within the family. A feminist framework to analyze the ways in which migration transforms the family, and how migrant men interpret and respond to these transformations, are also provided in this book.
This book concerns the meaning and significance of the transformation of intimacy on the societal level. The transformation is realized from the highly constrained conjugal relationships of a traditional society, through the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century romantic love, to confluent love or pure relationship in modern society. According to Giddens, the separation of sexuality from reproduction is crucial to the emancipation in the pure relationship. Giddens argues that the transformation of intimacy may have extended its influence on the democratization of personal life to the revolution of social life, and such transformation from hierarchical and patriarchal relations to more egalitarian and intimate relations is to a large extent the consequence of feminism as a social movement.
In contrast to most Western analyses of Asian masculinity that rely on the yin-yang binary, this book uses the concepts of wen (cultural attainment) and wu (martial valour) to explain attitudes to masculinity. It analyzes significant Chinese figures such as Confucius and modern writers such as Lao She and Ding Ling in terms of masculinity. Examining classical and contemporary Chinese literature and film, the book looks at the Chinese diaspora to consider Chinese masculinity within and outside China. Besides, this book also looks at the transformations of Chinese masculinity ideals in China and in the West.
This book examines the desiring subjectivity that have developed along with postsocialist transformations, some of which are connected to neoliberalism. Each of the 6 chapters in this book deals with a site where readers can observe the desiring subjectivity in the public culture in China, including a soap opera Yearnings broadcast in the 1990s, a museum established by a Chinese feminist Li Xiaojiang, the gay identities and practices in the transnational space and networks of Beijing, cosmopolitanism among young heterosexual women in China, several court cases in China that have established legal guidelines for proper sexual behavior, consumer rights, etc., and China’s decision to join the World Trade Organization.
This is an anthology of translated texts that represent the theory of Early Chinese Feminists. This book mainly examines three important figures, the female feminist He-Yin Zhen-the founding editor of an anarcho-feminist journal Natural Justice, and her male contemporaries Liang Qichao-a prominent Chinese scholar, journalist, philosopher, and reformist, as well as Jin Tianhe-a liberal educator and political activist. Biographies of the three figures are provided at the beginning of each section, and texts selected include six essays by He-Yin Zhen, “On Women’s Education” by Liang Qichao, and “The Women’s Bell” by Jin Tianhe.
This book features the work of 12 scholars in anthropology, film and literary studies. This book examines the positioning of women in domestic or public space in Chinese mass media and public discourse, as well as the representational spaces of women who struggles to broadening their spaces in the male-dominant world at the turn from the twentieth century to the twenty-first. The Transnational China comprises mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Chinese communities abroad. Sites of public sphere that are examined include women’s museum, women’s hotline, women’s sports, televisual fantasy, filmmaker’s work, feminist magazine, women’s bookstore, and women’s writing, public meetings and conferences, women’s movement and lesbian activism, etc.
本书主要收录了上世纪九十年代以后美国女性主义理论的一些重要成果。涉及的话题包括：能动性与权力理论的重构；转向作为分析范畴的“性别”；呼吁关注国内和跨国妇女之间的差别，构成对男/女差别理论的一种挑战；积极参与科学知识和方法论的假定。涉及的批评家包括朱迪斯·巴特勒、盖亚特里·斯皮瓦克、周蕾、多娜·哈拉维等。本书反映了美国女性主义批评家们不同的关切，体现了女性主义内部差异性和多元格局。
本书基于反封建、反压迫的社会意识形态建立了“压迫—解放”的妇女史研究模式，开启了以政治—朝代为标准的妇女史分期方法，将中国妇女史分为古代（先秦与秦代）、汉代、魏晋南北朝、隋唐五代、宋代、元明、清代、维新时代、近代等几个时期，主要从贞节、婚姻、女教、姬妾、妓女、妇妒、妇女妆饰、宫人、缠足等几方面关注中国妇女生活史，除引用《二十四史》《十三经》等正统典籍中的材料外，还大量运用了笔记、小说、诗文、家训、报刊等材料。
本书是在潘绥铭教授主持下、中国人民大学性社会学研究所2000年、2006年和2010年进行的三次对中国人的性生活与性关系的全国总人口的随机抽样调查结果的汇总与分析。本书分为多个专题，不仅包括18-61岁中国人的性观念、性欲、性生活、性技巧等，也包括婚外情、一夜情、找“小姐”等各种非主流的性关系，还包括14-17岁少年的性状况以及“多元性别”与同性恋等的情况。在每个专题里发布了大量的统计数据，剖析了这些现象的形成原因，大胆观测中国性文化的走向。
This book examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century to the present. Part One introduces the creation of a hierarchy of prostitution in Shanghai. Part Two examines the lives of courtesans as they were recounted by men primarily concerned with exhibiting their own urbanity. Part Three turns to writings in which prostitutes were portrayed as both victims and embodiments of social dangers. Part Four examines attempts by twentieth-century reformers and regulators to link prostitution to an ebbing of national strength and their efforts to ameliorate its effects. Part Five turns to the furious public debate engendered by the reappearance of prostitution in China in the 1980s and 1990s.
本书作者受到马克思主义、女性主义与社会性别研究、后结构主义、后殖民研究中“下属群体”概念等的影响，论述了从晚清到20世纪90年代初的一百年间，娼妓问题在各个层面上如何扭结了民族意识、政治权力关系、商业和经济利益、强国方针、社会改革、民族心理、欲望和恐惧、社会性别构造等等的丰富的语义场，成为相当核心的中国政治、经济、历史和精神文化的表征符号。本书共五部分——“历史记载与等级制度”、“愉悦”、“危险”、“干预”、“当代的对话”。
本书分析了珠三角地区性产业中女性从业者的情感、爱恋、婚姻、婚外关系等情色实践，探索她们对亲密关系的不同理解如何对生活道路的选择产生长期的影响，还分析了这群女性日常生活中的自我实践，如消费、打扮、尝试城市生活方式等，并阐述了这群女性的自我身份认同和她们对“性工作”和“工作”的看法和理解，以及从空间策略、语言游戏、性别形象等各方面展现娱乐行业、性产业中的从业女性在各种环境与制度夹缝中的生存策略和日常实践。
本书通过不同类型的婚外包养故事的讲述，深入描绘处于不同性别、阶层和城乡迁移中的人们的选择、经历、感受与解释，着重讨论亲密关系如何成为人们实践“欲望”和获得“尊严”的重要方式。作者认为，通过亲密关系进行的欲望实践和展示成为了阶层分化的一种“自然化”的符号边界，亲密关系在巨大的社会变革中成为人们寻求某种有尊严的生活的重要途径。本书中的资料主要来自于作者2005-2007年在广州和宁波两地进行的田野调查。
本书是一部有关中国男性研究的专著，在中国男性特质的特定层面上对“文武”的概念进行了探讨，同时也对这一理想随时间而变迁的历程做了纵向审视，，打破了以往西方对中国乃至亚洲男性特质从阴阳二元对立出发的逼仄理解。所分析的文本从《三国演义》、《西厢记》到成龙、周润发的电影，涵盖了文化思潮、经典文学、民间话本和电影作品等诸多体裁。除了本土化的社会建构分析，作者还借鉴了西方的符号学和精神分析理论。
