Engendering the Woman Question: Men, Women, and Writing in China's Early Periodical Press

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43853-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 452 g

Reihe: Women and Gender in China Studies

In Engendering the Woman Question, Zhang Yun adopts a new approach to examining the early Chinese women’s periodical press. Rather than seeing this new print and publishing genre as a gendered site coded as either “feminine” or “masculine,” this book approaches it as a mixed-gender public space where both men and women were intellectually active and involved in dynamic interactions to determine the contours of their discursive encounters.

Drawing upon a variety of novel textual modes such as polemical essays, historical biography, public speech, and expository essays, this book opens a window onto men’s and women’s gender-specific approaches to a series of prominent topics central to the Chinese woman question in the early twentieth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zhang, Yun

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Mediengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Introduction

1 Articulating the Woman Question: Women’s Literary Heritage, Education, and the Nation

1 The Mixed-Gender Public Space in Nü xuebao

2 Debates on the Cainü Legacy

3 Asserting Intellectual Authority in the Public Space

4 Ambivalence: a Debate of Linguistic Registers

5 Conclusion

2 Nationalism and Beyond: Nüjie and the Construction of a New Gendered Collective Identity

1 The Cure for the Nation: Mobilizing Nüjie

2 A Nüjie of Their Own

3 Beyond Nationalism: Demanding a Revolution in Nüjie

4 Conclusion

3 The Manchu Woman Commits Suicide: Ethnicity and the Composition of the New Chinese Woman

1 A Sacrificial Martyr for a National Cause

2 Making a Manchu Heroine

3 Ethnicity and Gender: Manchu Women’s Envisioning of Modern Womanhood

4 Conclusion

4 Fashioning Hygienic Womanhood: Women’s Health and Bodies in Commercial Women’s Journals

1 The Mixed-Gender Public Space of the Commercial Women’s Journals: Male Editorial Agency and Female Authorial Subjectivity

2 The Ideal of “Wise Mothers and Good Wives”

3 Women and Weisheng in the Household

4 Women’s Hygiene and Reproductive Health

4.1 Menstruation

4.2 Childbirth

5 Conclusion

5 Policing Girl Students

1 Female Students in the Late Qing

2 The Republican Girl Students

3 Debates on Girl Students

4 Personal Accounts from Girl Students

5 Conclusion

Conclusion

Works Cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Zhang Yun, Ph.D. (2015), The University of Hong Kong, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She has published articles and translations on women’s and gender history and Chinese literary and print culture.