Gender, sexuality and power in Chinese companies [[electronic resource] ] : beauties at work / / by Liu Jieyu
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| Autore: |
Jieyu Liu
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| Titolo: |
Gender, sexuality and power in Chinese companies [[electronic resource] ] : beauties at work / / by Liu Jieyu
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2017. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiii, 158 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 320.95 |
| Soggetto topico: | Asia—Politics and government |
| Sociology | |
| Industrial sociology | |
| Ethnology—Asia | |
| Economic development | |
| Social change | |
| Asian Politics | |
| Gender Studies | |
| Sociology of Work | |
| Asian Culture | |
| Development and Social Change | |
| Soggetto geografico: | China |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies |
| ISBN: | 1-137-50575-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910150196003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Gender, Development and Social Change, . 2730-7328