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This course investigates the power of “situation”: under what circumstances, will otherwise healthy, well-educated, smart people do unthinkable and crazy things (such as committing murder and suicide, showing no effort to rescue person(s) in danger, conforming to the cruel authority). Human social behaviors and social influence, including attitude and attitude change, conformity, interpersonal attraction, prosocial behaviors, are explored. Stinging questions such as “can we prevent violence and prejudice to make a better world” are probed. It is designed to help students understand human behaviors and attitudes on a deeper level, to apply the social influence knowledge to our daily life, to address social problems with a sensitive and scientific mind, and make a constructive difference in the society.
This book is a textbook for social psychology. After introducing the basic concepts of social psychology, the book moves forward to discuss topics such as methodology, social cognition, social perception, self, the need to justify our actions, attitudes and attitude change, conformity, group processes, interpersonal attraction, prosocial behavior, aggression, and prejudice. This eighth edition features focus questions located at the beginning of each chapter and repeated in the summary at the end of the chapter. It also features exercises that apply concepts to everyday behavior, and critical thinking questions connected to the major concepts addressed.
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.
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。
