Intimate politics : marriage, the market, and state power in southeastern China /

"On a visit to eastern Hui'an in 1994, Sara Friedman was surprised to see a married woman reluctant to visit her conjugal home. The author would soon learn that not only was this practice typical of the area, but also typical were distinctive female dress styles, gender divisions of labor,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Friedman, Sara (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2006.
Series:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 265.
Subjects:
Women > Government policy > China > Hui'an Xian.
Women > China > Hui'an Xian > Social life and customs.
Women > China > Hui'an Xian > Social conditions.
Marriage > China > Hui'an Xian.
Sexual division of labor > China > Hui'an Xian.
Women.
Marriage.
Sexual division of labor.
Women
Marriage
Femmes.
Femmes > Chine > Hui'an > Mœurs et coutumes.
Femmes > Chine > Hui'an > Conditions sociales.
Mariage.
Division sexuelle du travail.
Femmes > Politique gouvernementale > Chine > Hui'an Xian.
Femmes > Chine > Hui'an Xian > Mœurs et coutumes.
Femmes > Chine > Hui'an Xian > Conditions sociales.
Mariage > Chine > Hui'an Xian.
women (female humans)
Ethnic relations > Political aspects
Sexual division of labor
Social policy
Women > Government policy
Women > Social conditions
Women > Social life and customs
Eheschließung
Kommunale Frauenpolitik
Landfrau
Wirtschaftliche Lage
Femmes > Chine > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Chine > Moeurs et coutumes.
Femmes > Politique publique > Chine.
Etat > femme > Fujian (Chine, republique populaire)
Etat > mariage > pouvoir > Fujian (Chine, republique populaire)
femme.
pouvoir.
China > Social policy.
China > Ethnic relations > Political aspects.
Chine > Politique sociale.
Chine > Relations interethniques > Aspect politique.
China
China > Hui'an Xian
China > Südost
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Table of Contents:
  • Industrious women and the changing meanings of labor
  • Fashioning liberated socialist subjects
  • Marriage, intimacy, and late-socialist state power
  • The ties that bind
  • Stone carving factories, youth culture, and the lure of consumption
  • Ethnicity in drag: mass media, tourism, and the politics of representation
  • Symbolic citizenship in a civilized nation
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: propaganda folk songs and protest poetry.

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