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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
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.
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.
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