Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies

Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 164
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ISBN-10 : 9781137505750
ISBN-13 : 1137505753
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Book Synopsis Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies by : Liu Jieyu

Download or read book Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies written by Liu Jieyu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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