Merchants' daughters : women, commerce, and regional culture in South China /
This collection provides further theoretical application of a 'regional construct' that appreciates process, transcends definitive powers of administrative borders, and brings out nuanced gender notions.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hong Kong :
Hong Kong University Press,
©2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction; I
- Cultural Spaces between State-Making and Kinship; 1
- Women's Images Reconstructed: The Sisters-in-Law Tomb and Its Legend; 2
- Images of Mother: The Place of Women in South China; 3
- "What Alternative Do You Have, Sixth Aunt?"
- Women and Marriage in Cantonese Ballads; 4
- Women's Work and Women's Food in Lineage Land; II
- Agency in Emigrant, Colonial, and Mercantile Societies; 5
- Stepping out? Women in the Chaoshan Emigrant Communities, 1850-1950; 6
- Abandoned into Prosperity: Women on the Fringe of Expatriate Society
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- The Eurasian Way of Being a Chinese Woman: Lady Clara Ho Tung and Buddhism in Prewar Hong KongIII
- Work and Activism in a Gendered Age; 8
- Women of Influence: Gendered Charisma; 9
- Women Workers in Hong Kong, 1960s-1990s: Voices, Meanings, and Structural Constraints; 10
- Half the Sky: Mobility and Late Socialist Reflections; 11- Fantasies of "Chinese-ness" and the Traffic in Women from Mainland China to Hong Kong in Fruit Chan's Durian Durian; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index