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The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism
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The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism Paperback - 2004

by Tani Barlow


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The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism is a history of thinking about the subject of women in twentieth-century China. Tani E. Barlow illustrates the theories and conceptual categories that Enlightenment Chinese intellectuals have developed to describe the collectivity of women. Demonstrating how generations of these theorists have engaged with international debates over eugenics, gender, sexuality, and the psyche, Barlow argues that as an Enlightenment project, feminist debate in China is at once Chinese and international. She reads social theory, psychoanalytic thought, literary criticism, ethics, and revolutionary political ideologies to illustrate the range and scope of Chinese feminist theory's preoccupation with the problem of gender inequality. She reveals how, throughout the cataclysms of colonial modernity, revolutionary modernization, and market socialism, prominent Chinese feminists have gathered up the remainders of the past and formed them into social and ethical arguments, categories, and political positions, ceaselessly reshaping progressive Enlightenment sexual liberation theory.

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"Placing feminist thought within a continuum that defines human life in eugenic terms, Tani E. Barlow shows how Chinese feminism is not simply an inheritance of western ideas but is absolutely central to modernity and its emphasis on the sexed human being. "The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism" will spark controversy and will eventually stand as a model of scholarship for all of us to follow."--Wendy Larson, author of" Women and Writing in Modern China"

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  • Title The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism
  • Author Tani Barlow
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 496
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press
  • Date March 2004
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780822332701 / 0822332701
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.44 x 6.12 x 1.2 in (23.98 x 15.54 x 3.05 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Feminism - China - History, Feminist theory - China
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003019780
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.420

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  • Choice, 01/01/2005, Page 939

About the author

Tani E. Barlow is a historian of modern China teaching in the Women's Studies Department at the University of Washington, Seattle. She is the editor of many books, including Formations of Colonial Modernity in East Asia and New Asian Marxisms, both published by Duke University Press. Barlow is the founding senior editor of positions: east asia cultures critique, also published by Duke University Press.

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