Women and gender in contemporary Chinese societies : beyond Han patriarchy / edited by Shanshan Du and Ya-chen Chen.
Publication details: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2011.Description: ix, 241 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780739145807 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0739145800 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 305.420951 23
- HQ1767 .W644 2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Toward multiethnic approaches to women and gender in Chinese societies / Shanshan Du -- The cultural logic that identifies "two" as "one": male-female dyad and gender equality among the Lahu of southwest China / Shanshan Du -- Negotiating local tradition with Taoism: female ritual specialists in the Zhuang religion / James Wilkerson -- Divine compromises: the mother of grain and Gautama Buddha in De'ang religion / Shanshan Du -- "The wife is the boss": sex-ratio imbalance and young women's empowerment in rural northeast China / Lihong Shi -- The Han family: the realignment of parenting ideals, sentiments, and practices / William Jankowiak -- You may bump butts with the bride: negotiating the commodified "other" in Dai ethnic tourism / Monica Cable -- As mothers and wives: women in patrilineal Nuosu society / Shao-hua Liu -- The nude parade of 1927: nudity and women's liberation in China / Chia-lin Pao Tao -- Resistance through transformation? the meanings of gender reversals in a Taiwanese Buddhist monastery / Hillary Crane -- "Chinese cinematic martial arts feminism" and its incompletion: from A touch of zen, Crouching tiger hidden dragon, and The banquet / Ya-chen Chen -- Art as life/life as art: the fiction and feminist paradigm of Li Ang / Murray A. Rubinstein.
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