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Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies, Beauties at Work, by Liu Jieyu

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Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies, Beauties at Work, by Liu Jieyu

Language

eng

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Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

970681310

Responsibility statement

by Liu Jieyu

Series statement

Springer eBooksGender, Development and Social Change

Sub title

Beauties at Work

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.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of 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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