Chinese women and the cyberspace /
This edited book examines how Chinese women negotiate the Internet to empower themselves and the tensions and conflicts that arise out of this use.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Amsterdam] :
Amsterdam University Press,
©2008.
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Colección: | ICAS publication series. Edited volumes ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction : locating Chinese women in the cyberspace
- Part I: Work, leisure, politics and identity
- 2. Internet as social capital and social network : cyberactivity of Hong Kong and Shanghai women
- 3. Agency and ICT among Singaporean-Chinese women
- 4. Can the Internet help? : how immigrant women from China get jobs, a survey on PRC immigrants' employment status in Canada
- 5. Cyberactivism in the women's movement : a comparison of feminist practices by women organizing in mainland China and Hong Kong
- 6. Cyber self-centres? : young Hong Kong women and their personal websites
- 7. Embeddedness and virtual community : Chinese women and online shopping
- 8. Electronic park benches : online mothers in Hong Kong using the Baby Kingdom-- Part II: Love, sex and marriage
- 9. Sapphic shadows : sworn sisterhoods and cyber lesbian communities in Hong Kong-- 10. Sex & life politics formed through the Internet : online & offline dating experiences of young women in Shanghai
- 11. On sale in express package : Chinese female bodies as commondities in cyberspace-- 12. Boundary-crossing through cyberspace : Chinese women and transnational marriages since 1984.