Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies : Beauties at Work /
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...
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Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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Publisher Address: | London : |
Publication Dates: | 2017. |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Gender, Development and Social Change
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50575-0 |
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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. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(XIII,122pages). |
ISBN: | 9781137505750 |
Index Number: | JQ1 |
CLC: | F279.2-05 |
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. |