Chinese women and the cyberspace

This edited book examines how Chinese women negotiate the Internet to empower themselves and the tensions and conflicts that arise out of this use

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kuah-Pearce, Khun Eng (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Amsterdam] Amsterdam University Press ©2008, 2008
Series:ICAS publication series. Edited volumes
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505 0 |a 1. Introduction : locating Chinese women in the cyberspace -- Part I: Work, leisure, politics and identity -- 2. Internet as social capital and social network : cyberactivity of Hong Kong and Shanghai women -- 3. Agency and ICT among Singaporean-Chinese women -- 4. Can the Internet help? : how immigrant women from China get jobs, a survey on PRC immigrants' employment status in Canada -- 5. Cyberactivism in the women's movement : a comparison of feminist practices by women organizing in mainland China and Hong Kong -- 6. Cyber self-centres? : young Hong Kong women and their personal websites -- 7. Embeddedness and virtual community : Chinese women and online shopping -- 8. Electronic park benches : online mothers in Hong Kong using the Baby Kingdom-- Part II: Love, sex and marriage -- 9. Sapphic shadows : sworn sisterhoods and cyber lesbian communities in Hong Kong-- 10. Sex & life politics formed through the Internet : online & offline dating experiences of young women in Shanghai -- 11. On sale in express package : Chinese female bodies as commondities in cyberspace-- 12. Boundary-crossing through cyberspace : Chinese women and transnational marriages since 1984 
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