Gender, Dating and Violence in Urban China PDF Download

Author: Wang Xiying
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351691651
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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This book explores young people’s experiences of, and views on, dating, gender, sexuality, sexual hegemony and violence within dating relationships. Based on interviews and focus groups conducted in Beijing over a decade, and focusing especially on dating violence, the book reveals provides insights into a wide range of issues of gender and sexuality in contemporary China. It shows how young Chinese people’s attitudes and behaviors are changing as urban China develops rapidly, and how their experience of dating violence and meaning-making are affected by age, gender, location and class.

Author: Guoguang Wu
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429959869
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 303

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This book explores the extent to which women have been initiators, mobilizers, and driving forces of social transformation in China. The book considers how conceptions of women’s roles have changed as China has moved from state socialism to engagement with capitalist globalization, examines the growth of women’s gender and sexual consciousness and social movements for women’s rights, including for marginalized social and sex/gender grouops, and discusses women’s roles in society-state interactions, including many forms of social activism, cultural events, educational innovations, and more. Overall, the book demonstrates that women have not simply been passive receivers of the consequences of the forces of global capitalism, but that they have had a profound, active impact on social transformation in China.

Author: Kailing Xie
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811611394
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 303

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This book takes a feminist approach to analyse the lives of well-educated urban Chinese women, who were raised to embody the ideals of a modern Chinese nation and are largely the beneficiaries of the policy changes of the post-Mao era. It explores young women’s gendered attitudes to and experiences of marriage, reproductive choices, careers and aspirations for a good life. It sheds light on what keeps mainstream Chinese middle-class women conforming to the current gender regime. It illuminates the contradictory effects of neoliberal techniques deployed by a familial authoritarian regime on these women’s striving for success in urban China, and argues that, paradoxically, women’s individualistic determination to succeed has often led them onto the path of conformity by pursuing exemplary norms which fit into the party-state’s agenda.

Author: Kristen Zaleski
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190927100
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Women's Journey to Empowerment in the 21st Century offers a global view into the patriarchal attitudes that shape cultural practices that oppress women and continue to take form in the modern era. In closely examining a range of issues--from the college campus rape epidemic in the United States to the climate change effects in Ghana--this book compels readers to utilize a contextual framework in order to take a closer look into contemporary violence and oppression against women in our world. Written through the lens of transnational feminism, it examines the intersections of nationhood, race, gender, sexuality, and economics within the context of a world shaped by globalization and colonialism, causing the redefinition of borders and the realignment of migration patterns. A transnational feminist perspective also supports a definition of global sisterhood based on equity, understanding, and mutual experiences. Students focusing on social justice, social work, women's studies, feminist theory, and/or violence against women will find the book to be an invaluable resource.

Author: Jieyu Liu
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317337336
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 574

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The Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies presents up-to-date theoretical and conceptual developments in key areas of the field, taking a multi-disciplinary and comparative approach. Featuring contributions by leading scholars of Gender Studies to provide a cutting-edge overview of the field, this handbook includes examples from China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong and covers the following themes: theorising gender relations; women’s and feminist movements; work, care and migration; family and intergenerational relationships; cultural representation; masculinity; and state, militarism and gender. This handbook is essential reading for scholars and students of Gender and Women’s Studies, as well as East Asian societies, social policy and culture.

Author: Xiying Wang
Publisher: Open Dissertation Press
ISBN: 9781374671591
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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This dissertation, "Dating Violence in Post-socialist Beijing" by Xiying, Wang, 王曦影, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Abstract of thesis entitled DATING VIOLENCE IN POST-SOCIALIST BEIJING Submitted by WANG Xiying for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at The University of Hong Kong in May 2007 Beijing, the historically and politically important city in China, is a cosmopolitan, urbanized and rapidly developing city with a high degree of culture hybridity. This qualitative study explores how Beijing young men and women interpret the meaning of dating, love, gender, sexuality and how they make sense of their violent dating experiences. In other words, dating violence becomes a site to observe the social transformation of gender, sexuality, femininity, and masculinity in Post-socialist Beijing (Dirlik, 1989; Litzinger, 2002). There are extensive Chinese studies on domestic violence but not on dating violence, and this study fills the gap by focusing on this rather new research topic for China. This study looks at dating violence as an important area of study in its own right rather than as a topic subsumed within the larger subject of domestic violence. The problem with existing studies in the area is that they mostly adopt the approach of second wave feminism in the West without a critical interrogation of its applicability within the Chinese social context, and portray women as victims and men as perpetrators. This study establishes a new theoretical framework appropriating insights of third wave feminism and postsocialism for the understanding of young people's dating experience. Based on data collected through individual interviews and focus groups from 2003 to 2006, this study pays special attention to the intersectionality of gender, sexuality, class, race, age, as well as that of the state and market in shaping Beijing young people's dating lives. Further special attention is given to the combination of the micro-politics of individual subjectivity, resistance, and desire, on the one hand, and the macro-politics of post-socialist China on the other. Data analysis for this study starts with a portrayal of dating geography filled with power struggles associated with violence. Women's aggression in dating relationships and their experience of sexual coercion is the apparent paradox addressed. It is enticing to note that some young women who seem to be aggressive in daily life are relatively submissive when it comes to sex, which becomes the main puzzle to be solved in this thesis. It is argued that young people develop many strategies to establish their agency and subjectivity in the process of relating to predominant social discourses regarding dating, gender, and sexual hegemony. In this study, state discourse, flexible market, and culture hybridity (Dirlik, 1989; Litzinger, 2002), the three characteristics of postsocialism, establish a basis for discourse analysis. These three forces respectively play their varying, greater or lesser roles in influencing Beijing young people's dating lives. I argue that it is still important to examine the interconnection between state, market, and gender rather than over-emphasizing the role of the market. I also point out that Confucian ideas in violence research represent a cultural dislocation, and demonstrate how this dislocation exists in young people's dating lives. (word count: 469) DOI: 10.5353/th_b3831013 Subjects: Dating violence - China - Beijing

Author: Fengshu Liu
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315441225
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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This book examines, in a culturally and contextually sensitive way, the particularity of what it means to be young in post-Mao China undergoing rapid and dramatic transformation by comparing childhood and youth experiences over three generations. The analysis draws on life-history interviews with Beijing young men and women in their last upper secondary year, their parents and their grandparents. The book offers a comprehensive coverage of the various aspects of life pertinent to youth experiences and compares each of these across three generations, treating them as interrelated and mutually affecting processes – childhood, intergenerational relationships, education and future plans, gender and sexuality. By offering both men’s and women’s accounts of their childhood and youth experiences, which for the three generations combined extend over nearly a century, the book sheds useful light on how gender and sexuality have evolved in China. Fengshu Liu concludes that the young generation’s lives feature a ‘maximization desire’, in sharp contrast to the two older generations’ childhood and youth experiences. The book meticulously weaves rich ethnographic details and individual life stories into a larger and unfolding picture of historical, social and cultural trends, while providing critical insight into Chinese modernization and modernity against the backdrop of globalization. It can thus be an enjoyable read also for people beyond the academia interested in China’s social and cultural transformation and its children and youth.

Author: Rowland Atkinson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113470870X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Urban Criminology offers an accessible analysis of our urban condition, viewed through the prism of crime, disorder and social harm. This book gathers cutting-edge treatments, research field reports and critical examinations of crime and harm in cities, from the disciplines of urban studies and criminology. The social, economic and political composition of cities and the various inequalities that mark out and drive the problem of crime in many cities today are foregrounded. Readers follow a series of thematic engagements, generating a deeper understanding of a range of key areas that include problems of violence, social and spatial divisions, housing, policing and the role of the urban economy in issues of financial crime. This book comes at a time of rising crime in many cities and complex responses by city administrations and communities. It presents a critical, political thesis – that crime in cities must be understood with reference to the varying social structures, political forces and economic opportunities of cities. These influences intersect to produce dramatic variations in victimisation and attempts at social control, often felt most strongly around class and gender divisions. To understand crime, we must better understand the life of the city. Urban Criminology seeks to present an integrated framework that brings to life these key issues and seeks to enthuse students of our urban condition – to locate the harms within it and to identify ways of reducing the risk of crime. This book is ideal reading for all students with an interest in cities, crime, community life, urban sociology and urban cultures.

Author: Le Cheng
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000984885
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 135

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This book provides a range of highly accessible approaches from Discourse Studies for analyzing legal language in legislation, documents, proceedings and in news media reporting. In this insightful volume, scholars from both Law and Linguistics come together to provide a range of approaches from Discourse Studies for analyzing legal language in legislation, documents and proceedings and in news media reporting. The book begins with tackling exactly why such approaches are hugely helpful and valuable for understanding the nature of legal language and how it is used. The chapters, written in an accessible manner, show how discourse analysis can be used to throw light on the ideas and values which can be buried in legal language. The book provides a valuable resource for researchers wishing to carry out their own research or for use in teaching. The Law and Critical Discourse Studies will be a key resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of law, language and linguistics, discourse studies, sociology, and media and cultural studies.This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Critical Discourse Studies.

Author: Weihua Wu
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351611089
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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This book explores the development of the Chinese animation film industry from the beginning of China’s reform process up to the present. It discusses above all the relationship between the communist state’s policies to stimulate "creative industries", concepts of creativity and aesthetics, and the creation and maintenance , through changing circumstances, of a national style by Chinese animators. The book also examines the relationship between Chinese animation, changing technologies including the rise first of television and then of digital media, and youth culture, demonstrating the importance of Chinese animation in Chinese youth culture in the digital age.