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Liu Jieyu

Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies

Beauties at Work

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This book offers the first ethnographic account of the experiences of highly educated young professional women, hailed by the Chinese media as 'white-collar beauties'. It exposes the organizational mechanisms - naturalization, objectification and commodification of women - that wield gendered and sexual control in post-Mao workplaces. Whilst men benefit from symbolic and bureaucratic power, women professionals skilfully enact indirect power in a game of domination and resistance. The sources of women's subversion are grounded in their only-child upbringing which breaks the patrilineal base of familial patriarchy fostering an unprecedented amb… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-137-50574-3
  • EAN: 9781137505743
  • Produktnummer: 20000550
  • Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 158 S.
  • Masse: H21.6 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.4 cm 343 g
  • Abbildungen: Book; 3 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, Bibliographie
  • Gewicht: 343

Über den Autor


Jieyu Liu is Deputy Director of the SOAS China Institute, SOAS University of London, UK. In 2015, she was awarded a five-year European Research Council grant to examine family and sexual relations in East Asia.

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