Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies
Beauties at Work
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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-137-50575-0
- EAN: 9781137505750
- Produktnummer: 21797170
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 216 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'789 KB
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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