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Liu, Jieyu.

Gender, sexuality and power in Chinese companiesbeauties at work /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Gender, sexuality and power in Chinese companiesby Liu Jieyu.
Reminder of title:	beauties at work /
Author:	Liu, Jieyu.
Published:	London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2017.
Description:	xiii, 158 p. :digital ;23 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Women professional employeesChina.
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50575-0
ISBN:	9781137505750$q(electronic bk.)

Gender, sexuality and power in Chinese companiesbeauties at work /
Liu, Jieyu.

Gender, sexuality and power in Chinese companiesbeauties at work /[electronic resource] :by Liu Jieyu. - London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2017. - xiii, 158 p. :digital ;23 cm. - Gender, development and social change. - Gender, development and social change..

Chapter 1. Becoming White Collar Beauties in Urban China -- Chapter 2. Toward a Local Feminist Understanding of Gender and Sexuality -- Chapter 3. The Weaker Sex -- Chapter 4. Sex in Work -- Chapter 5. Sex as Work -- Chapter 6. Sisterhood -- Chapter 7. Marriage, Family and Divorce.

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.

ISBN: 9781137505750$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-50575-0doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

771547
Women professional employees
--China.

LC Class. No.: HD6054.2.C6 / L58 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 331.481000951

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