Gail Hershatter
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520098565
- eISBN:
- 9780520916128
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520098565.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This guide on Chinese and women's history synthesizes recent research on women in twentieth-century China. It surveys more than 650 scholarly works, discussing Chinese women in the context of ...
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This guide on Chinese and women's history synthesizes recent research on women in twentieth-century China. It surveys more than 650 scholarly works, discussing Chinese women in the context of marriage, family, sexuality, labor, and national modernity. In the process, the book offers keen analytic insights and judgments about the works themselves and the evolution of related academic fields. The result is both a practical bibliographic tool and a thoughtful reflection on how we approach the past.Less
This guide on Chinese and women's history synthesizes recent research on women in twentieth-century China. It surveys more than 650 scholarly works, discussing Chinese women in the context of marriage, family, sexuality, labor, and national modernity. In the process, the book offers keen analytic insights and judgments about the works themselves and the evolution of related academic fields. The result is both a practical bibliographic tool and a thoughtful reflection on how we approach the past.
Gail Hershatter
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520098565
- eISBN:
- 9780520916128
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520098565.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter examines women and national modernity, the theme most directly entangled with the grand revolutionary narrative, and the very term “nation”marks it as a modern construct. The story rests ...
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This chapter examines women and national modernity, the theme most directly entangled with the grand revolutionary narrative, and the very term “nation”marks it as a modern construct. The story rests on two foundational assertions. The first, made mostly by recuperative feminist historians, was that “women were there, too” as participants in every important revolutionary moment. The second held that women had long been oppressed by “Confucian society” and that only revolution could free them. Tracing this story out, praising the revolution for its successes and holding it accountable for its failures, has produced much innovative scholarship.Less
This chapter examines women and national modernity, the theme most directly entangled with the grand revolutionary narrative, and the very term “nation”marks it as a modern construct. The story rests on two foundational assertions. The first, made mostly by recuperative feminist historians, was that “women were there, too” as participants in every important revolutionary moment. The second held that women had long been oppressed by “Confucian society” and that only revolution could free them. Tracing this story out, praising the revolution for its successes and holding it accountable for its failures, has produced much innovative scholarship.
Charlene E. Makley
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520250598
- eISBN:
- 9780520940536
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520250598.003.0003
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter examines in detail the politics of time in national incorporation processes. It tries to understand the “Democratic Reforms” in the Labrang region, and expands the notion of the ...
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This chapter examines in detail the politics of time in national incorporation processes. It tries to understand the “Democratic Reforms” in the Labrang region, and expands the notion of the “feminine hinge” between the static past and advancing national modernity in the People's Republic of China. The chapter also discusses the spatial politics of contextualization in order to consider gender historiography in post-Mao Labrang.Less
This chapter examines in detail the politics of time in national incorporation processes. It tries to understand the “Democratic Reforms” in the Labrang region, and expands the notion of the “feminine hinge” between the static past and advancing national modernity in the People's Republic of China. The chapter also discusses the spatial politics of contextualization in order to consider gender historiography in post-Mao Labrang.
Raka Shome
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038730
- eISBN:
- 9780252096686
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038730.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
The death of Princess Diana unleashed an international outpouring of grief, love, and press attention virtually unprecedented in history. Yet the exhaustive effort to link an upper-class white ...
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The death of Princess Diana unleashed an international outpouring of grief, love, and press attention virtually unprecedented in history. Yet the exhaustive effort to link an upper-class white British woman with “the people” raises questions. What narrative of white femininity transformed Diana into a simultaneous signifier of a national and global popular? What ideologies did the narrative tap into to transform her into an idealized woman of the millennium? Why would a similar idealization not have appeared around a non-white, non-Western, or immigrant woman? This book investigates the factors that led to this defining cultural/political moment and unravels just what the Diana phenomenon represented for comprehending the relation between white femininity and the nation in postcolonial Britain and its connection to other white female celebrity figures in the millennium. Digging into the media and cultural artifacts that circulated in the wake of Diana's death, the book investigates a range of salient theoretical issues surrounding motherhood and the production of national masculinities, global humanitarianism, transnational masculinities, the intersection of fashion and white femininity, and spirituality and national modernity. The book's analysis explores how images of white femininity in popular culture intersect with issues of race, gender, class, sexuality, and transnationality. Moving from ideas on the positioning of privileged white women in global neoliberalism to the emergence of new formations of white femininity in the millennium, the book explains the late princess's never-ending renaissance and ongoing cultural relevance.Less
The death of Princess Diana unleashed an international outpouring of grief, love, and press attention virtually unprecedented in history. Yet the exhaustive effort to link an upper-class white British woman with “the people” raises questions. What narrative of white femininity transformed Diana into a simultaneous signifier of a national and global popular? What ideologies did the narrative tap into to transform her into an idealized woman of the millennium? Why would a similar idealization not have appeared around a non-white, non-Western, or immigrant woman? This book investigates the factors that led to this defining cultural/political moment and unravels just what the Diana phenomenon represented for comprehending the relation between white femininity and the nation in postcolonial Britain and its connection to other white female celebrity figures in the millennium. Digging into the media and cultural artifacts that circulated in the wake of Diana's death, the book investigates a range of salient theoretical issues surrounding motherhood and the production of national masculinities, global humanitarianism, transnational masculinities, the intersection of fashion and white femininity, and spirituality and national modernity. The book's analysis explores how images of white femininity in popular culture intersect with issues of race, gender, class, sexuality, and transnationality. Moving from ideas on the positioning of privileged white women in global neoliberalism to the emergence of new formations of white femininity in the millennium, the book explains the late princess's never-ending renaissance and ongoing cultural relevance.
Raka Shome
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038730
- eISBN:
- 9780252096686
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038730.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter explores the relationships among fashion, white femininity, multiculturalism, and the nation. More specifically, it asks how a “fashionable” white female body comes to signify a nation's ...
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This chapter explores the relationships among fashion, white femininity, multiculturalism, and the nation. More specifically, it asks how a “fashionable” white female body comes to signify a nation's modernity given the link between fashion and newness, and how shifts in dominant fashion styles signify shifts in a nation's temporality. Focusing on Princess Diana's changing fashion style, the chapter considers the relationship between fashion and cultural politics as well as fashion as a citizenly discourse in New Britain. It also situates the engagement of Diana's body (as well as the body of other white national women such as Cherie Blair) with Asian and particularly Indian fashion, paying attention to the emerging phenomenon of celebrity black (Western) women and Indo-fascination. By analyzing the link between contemporary multiculturalism and fashion, the chapter shows how (white) female fashion functions as a site through which shifting spatiotemporalities of the nation are narrated while raising several interrelated issues regarding national modernity and gendered appearance.Less
This chapter explores the relationships among fashion, white femininity, multiculturalism, and the nation. More specifically, it asks how a “fashionable” white female body comes to signify a nation's modernity given the link between fashion and newness, and how shifts in dominant fashion styles signify shifts in a nation's temporality. Focusing on Princess Diana's changing fashion style, the chapter considers the relationship between fashion and cultural politics as well as fashion as a citizenly discourse in New Britain. It also situates the engagement of Diana's body (as well as the body of other white national women such as Cherie Blair) with Asian and particularly Indian fashion, paying attention to the emerging phenomenon of celebrity black (Western) women and Indo-fascination. By analyzing the link between contemporary multiculturalism and fashion, the chapter shows how (white) female fashion functions as a site through which shifting spatiotemporalities of the nation are narrated while raising several interrelated issues regarding national modernity and gendered appearance.
Raka Shome
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038730
- eISBN:
- 9780252096686
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038730.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This book has examined the ways that white femininity, as an assemblage of power, is utilized in the production of a national modernity by using the case of Princess Diana. It has shown how ...
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This book has examined the ways that white femininity, as an assemblage of power, is utilized in the production of a national modernity by using the case of Princess Diana. It has shown how transnational relations and contexts (even when they are not apparent) are always embedded in the processes through which white femininity and the nation articulate each other. It has also illustrated the complex and multifaceted role that white femininity (as a racial formation) plays in the management of contemporary liberal logics of multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism. The book concludes with a discussion of where white femininity is now—in these recession years—especially in the United Kingdom. It describes two salient operations of white womanhood in contemporary UK: white womanhood becomes a site through which economic austerity is glamorized and justified, and through that class and raced inequalities are obscured; and defiled white womanhood functions as a trope through which multiculturalism is being rendered a problem. The book ends by offering some thoughts on future directions for further work on white femininity and the nation.Less
This book has examined the ways that white femininity, as an assemblage of power, is utilized in the production of a national modernity by using the case of Princess Diana. It has shown how transnational relations and contexts (even when they are not apparent) are always embedded in the processes through which white femininity and the nation articulate each other. It has also illustrated the complex and multifaceted role that white femininity (as a racial formation) plays in the management of contemporary liberal logics of multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism. The book concludes with a discussion of where white femininity is now—in these recession years—especially in the United Kingdom. It describes two salient operations of white womanhood in contemporary UK: white womanhood becomes a site through which economic austerity is glamorized and justified, and through that class and raced inequalities are obscured; and defiled white womanhood functions as a trope through which multiculturalism is being rendered a problem. The book ends by offering some thoughts on future directions for further work on white femininity and the nation.
