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The Resource Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies : Beauties at Work, by Liu Jieyu, (electronic resource)

Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies : Beauties at Work, by Liu Jieyu, (electronic resource)

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This book offers the first ethnographic account of the experiences of highly educated young professional women, hailed by the Chinese media as ‘white-collar beauties’. It exposes the organizational mechanisms – naturalization, objectification and commodification of women – that wield gendered and sexual control in post-Mao workplaces. Whilst men benefit from symbolic and bureaucratic power, women professionals skilfully enact indirect power in a game of domination and resistance. The sources of women’s subversion are grounded in their only-child upbringing which breaks the patrilineal base of familial patriarchy fostering an unprecedented ambition in personal development, gender as inherently relational and a role-oriented system, and inner-outer cultural boundaries as signifiers of moral agency. This raises a new feminist inquiry about the agents for social change. Through a nuanced analysis grounded in the socio-cultural locality, this book throws fresh light upon the ways in which gender, sexuality and power could be theorized beyond a Euro-American reality.--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (XIII, 158 pages)
Contents
  • Chapter 1. Becoming White Collar Beauties in Urban China
  • Chapter 2. Toward a Local Feminist Understanding of Gender and Sexuality
  • Chapter 3. The Weaker Sex
  • Chapter 4. Sex in Work
  • Chapter 5. Sex as Work
  • Chapter 6. Sisterhood
  • Chapter 7. Marriage, Family and Divorce
Isbn
9781137505750
Link
http://ezproxy.eui.eu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50575-0
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Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies : Beauties at Work
Title
Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies
Title remainder
Beauties at Work
Statement of responsibility
by Liu Jieyu
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Subject
Language
eng
Summary
This book offers the first ethnographic account of the experiences of highly educated young professional women, hailed by the Chinese media as ‘white-collar beauties’. It exposes the organizational mechanisms – naturalization, objectification and commodification of women – that wield gendered and sexual control in post-Mao workplaces. Whilst men benefit from symbolic and bureaucratic power, women professionals skilfully enact indirect power in a game of domination and resistance. The sources of women’s subversion are grounded in their only-child upbringing which breaks the patrilineal base of familial patriarchy fostering an unprecedented ambition in personal development, gender as inherently relational and a role-oriented system, and inner-outer cultural boundaries as signifiers of moral agency. This raises a new feminist inquiry about the agents for social change. Through a nuanced analysis grounded in the socio-cultural locality, this book throws fresh light upon the ways in which gender, sexuality and power could be theorized beyond a Euro-American reality.--
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non fiction
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  • Springer eBooks
  • Gender, Development and Social Change
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  • Political science
  • Ethnology
  • Asia
  • Sociology
  • Industrial sociology
  • Economic development
  • Social change
  • Sex (Psychology)
  • Gender expression
  • Gender identity
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Asian Politics
  • Gender Studies
  • Sociology of Work
  • Asian Culture
  • Development and Social Change
Label
Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies : Beauties at Work, by Liu Jieyu, (electronic resource)
Link
http://ezproxy.eui.eu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50575-0
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Contents
Chapter 1. Becoming White Collar Beauties in Urban China -- Chapter 2. Toward a Local Feminist Understanding of Gender and Sexuality -- Chapter 3. The Weaker Sex -- Chapter 4. Sex in Work -- Chapter 5. Sex as Work -- Chapter 6. Sisterhood -- Chapter 7. Marriage, Family and Divorce
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978-1-137-50575-0
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unknown
Extent
1 online resource (XIII, 158 pages)
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  • online
  • electronic
Governing access note
Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
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9781137505750
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10.1057/978-1-137-50575-0
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access
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)970681310
Label
Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies : Beauties at Work, by Liu Jieyu, (electronic resource)
Link
http://ezproxy.eui.eu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50575-0
Publication
Antecedent source
mixed
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
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not applicable
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Chapter 1. Becoming White Collar Beauties in Urban China -- Chapter 2. Toward a Local Feminist Understanding of Gender and Sexuality -- Chapter 3. The Weaker Sex -- Chapter 4. Sex in Work -- Chapter 5. Sex as Work -- Chapter 6. Sisterhood -- Chapter 7. Marriage, Family and Divorce
Control code
978-1-137-50575-0
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (XIII, 158 pages)
File format
multiple file formats
Form of item
  • online
  • electronic
Governing access note
Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
Isbn
9781137505750
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uncompressed
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other control number
10.1057/978-1-137-50575-0
Quality assurance targets
absent
Reformatting quality
access
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)970681310

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