Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations Perspectives from China’s Privileged Young Women
"Xie’s book is a must read for anyone who still imagines that improved education and wealth lead inexorably to liberal values of gender equality. It adds our understanding of how engagement with global capitalism can both promote the fulfilment of individual middle-class aspirations while reinf...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore
Palgrave Macmillan
2021, 2021
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021 |
| Series: | Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Researching China’s Lucky Generation: The Post 80s
- Chapter 2. Women, Family and the Nation in Contemporary China
- Chapter 3. Premarital abortion, what is the harm? The Responsibilisation of women’s pregnancy among China’s ‘privileged’ daughters
- Chapter 4. The Right Time for Childbirth: The Naturalisation of Motherhood within Marriage
- Chapter 5. The Gendered Construction of Exemplary Middle-Class Identity: The Hegemony of Chenggong (success)
- Chapter 6. Reality Bites: Gendered Experiences of Marriage and Work
- Chapter 7. Concluding Discussion: Living with Contradictions