Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies - Beauties at Work (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)

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 ambition in personal development, gender as inherently relational and a role-oriented system, and inner-outer cultural boundaries as signifiers of moral agency. This raises a new feminist inquiry about the agents for social change. Through a nuanced analysis grounded in the socio-cultural locality, this book throws fresh light upon the ways in which gender, sexuality and power could be theorized beyond a Euro-American reality.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Gender, Development and Social Change
Release date:	November 2020
First published:	2017
Authors:	Liu Jieyu
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	158
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-1-349-70069-1
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour
LSN:	1-349-70069-X
Barcode:	9781349700691

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