Other modernities : gendered yearnings in China after socialism /

In this analysis of three generations of women in a Chinese silk factory, Lisa Rofel interweaves the intimate details of her observations with a broad-ranging critique of the meaning of modernity in a postmodern age. Exploring attitudes toward work, marriage, society, and culture, she convincingly c...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rofel, Lisa, 1953-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1999.
Subjects:
Since 1900
Women > China > Hangzhou Shi > Case studies.
Women silk industry workers > China > Hangzhou Shi > Case studies.
Women and socialism > China > Hangzhou Shi > Case studies.
Socialism > China > 20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Socialism
Women
Women and socialism
Women silk industry workers
Arbeiterin
Frau
Seidenindustrie
Seidenmanufaktur
Soziale Situation
Sozialismus
Fallstudiensammlung
Vrouwen.
Sekseverschillen.
Communisme.
Sociale verandering.
Femmes > Chine > Hangzhou (Chine) > Cas, Études de > 1970-2000.
Industrie soyeuse > Personnel > Chine > Hangzhou (Chine) > 1970-2000 > Cas, Études de.
Femmes et socialisme > Chine > Hangzhou (Chine) > 1970-2000 > Cas, Études de.
Socialisme > Chine > 20e siècle.
WOMEN.
SILK INDUSTRY.
INDUSTRIAL WORKERS.
SOCIALISM.
HANGZHOU (China)
CHINA.
CASE STUDIES.
HISTORY.
TWENTIETH CENTURY.
China > History > 1949-
Chine > Histoire > 1949-
China
China > Hangzhou Shi
Hangzhou
China.
Chine > 1949- ...
Case studies
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Modernity and Its Discrepant Desires
  • pt. 1. Re-Collecting History. 1. Liberation Stories. 2. The Poetics of Productivity. 3. Socialist Nostalgia
  • pt. 2. Unsettling Memories. 4. She. 5. The Politics of Authority. 6. Yearnings
  • pt. 3. Space and Subjectivity. 7. Allegories of Postsocialism. 8. Rethinking Modernity: Space and Factory Discipline.

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