In the Event of Women outlines the stakes of what Tani Barlow calls
"the event of women." Focusing on the era of the late nineteenth
century through the mid-twentieth century's Cultural Revolution,
Barlow shows that an event is a politically inspired action to
install a newly discovered truth, in this case the mammal origins
of human social evolution. Highbrow and lowbrow social theory
circulating in Chinese urban print media placed humanity's origin
story in relation to commercial capital's modern advertising
industry and the conclusion that women's liberation involved
selling, buying, and advertising industrial commodities. The
political struggle over how the truth of women in China would be
performed and understood, Barlow shows, means in part that an event
of women was likely global because its truth is vested in biology
and physiology. In so doing, she reveals the ways in which
historical universals are effected in places where truth claims are
not usually sought. This book reconsiders Alain Badiou's concept of
the event; particularly the question of whose political moment
marks newly discovered truths.
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