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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.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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.