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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kuah-Pearce, Khun Eng, 1958- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, ©2008.
Colección:ICAS publication series. Edited volumes ; 2.
Temas:
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.