Documents the history of woman as a category in twentieth century
Chinese history, tracing the question of gender through various
phases in the literary career of Ding Ling, a major modern Chinese
writer The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism is a history of
ideas about women in twentieth-century China. Tani E. Barlow tracks
the categories that Chinese intellectuals have developed to think
about women and connects these paradigms to transnational debates
about eugenics, gender, sexuality, and the psyche. Contending that
Chinese feminism has a basis in eugenicist thought, Barlow
describes how the emergence of social science perspectives during
the 1920s lent the liberation of Chinese women an urgency by
suggesting that women should choose their own sexual partners; the
health of the nation, it was argued, depended in part on the
biological mechanisms of natural selection. nation and development
in China. At the same time, she shows that Chinese feminism both
borrowed from and contributed to emerging feminist formations
around the world. Barlow's exploration of Chinese feminism provides
an in-depth examination of one of the most compelling and
significant feminist movements in modern history.
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