Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China: The Case of the Huang-Lu Elopement 2018 Edition Contributor(s): He, Qiliang (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319896911 ISBN-13: 9783319896915 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $113.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Asian - General - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Performing Arts | Film - General |
Dewey: 305.42 |
Series: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World |
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.16 lbs) 299 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
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Publisher Description: Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China focuses on a sensational elopement in the Yangzi Delta in the late 1920s to explore how middle- and lower-class members of society gained access to and appropriated otherwise alien and abstract enlightenment theories and idioms about love, marriage, and family. Via a network of communications that connected people of differing socioeconomic and educational backgrounds, non-elite women were empowered to display their new womanhood and thereby exercise their self-activating agency to mount resistance to China's patriarchal system. Qiliang He's text also investigates the proliferation of anti-feminist conservatisms in legal practice, scholarly discourses, media, and popular culture in the early Nanjing Decade (1927-1937). Utilizing a framework of interdisciplinary scholarship, this book traverses various fields such as legal history, women's history, popular culture/media studies, and literary studies to explore urban discourse and communication in 1920s China.
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