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Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies

Part of the Gender, Development and Social Change Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-50575-0

ISBN: 978-1-137-50574-3

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Nov 9, 2016

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction

Jieyu, Liu

Pages: 1 –10

[Through rich ethnographic illustrations of the work and life of white-collar beauties in China in the new millennium, this book aims to make an essential and timely contribution to our understanding of highly educated women in the East Asian labour market. By grounding analysis in local...
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Chapter 2Becoming ‘White-Collar Beauties’ in Urban China

Jieyu, Liu

Pages: 11 –31

[This chapter examines the social, economic and cultural processes that lead to the making of a ‘white-collar beauty’ identity in post-Mao China. It is revealed how the discourse is embedded in a framework infused with state and market neoliberal forces: young educated heterosexual women are...
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Chapter 3Towards a Local Feminist Understanding of Gender and Sexuality

Jieyu, Liu

Pages: 33 –54

[This chapter revisits the basic but fundamental concepts in feminist theories: gender and sexuality. By highlighting the historical and socio-cultural constitution of gender and sexuality, this chapter formulates a local feminist framework to account for the gendered and sexual control and...
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Chapter 4‘The Weaker Sex’

Jieyu, Liu

Pages: 55 –71

[This chapter considers the way in which essentialized gender categories underlie the division of labour, discourses and practices in the foreign trade company. Because gender is understood in a biological nature that ‘is itself a naturalized social construct’ (Bourdieu, P., Masculine domination....
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Chapter 5Sex in Work

Jieyu, Liu

Pages: 73 –87

[This chapter reveals the way in which eroticized workplace culture has resulted in a form of masculine domination and hetero-normative control through the process of objectification. Sexual innuendo is encouraged by management to enhance productivity, and morale and agency in public sexual...
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Chapter 6Sex as Work

Jieyu, Liu

Pages: 89 –106

[This chapter considers the experiences of women and men working in the sales departments of a range of domestically oriented Chinese companies. Through an examination of the way in which Chinese businesses utilize the facilities offered by the entertainment and leisure sector to cultivate...
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Chapter 7Affect, Power and Resistance

Jieyu, Liu

Pages: 107 –121

[This chapter examines the power relationship between men and women as well as among women in the office setting. Although men held official and direct power in the organizational hierarchy, women’s indirect power could be more effective in micro-level interactions at work. Women’s capacity to...
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Chapter 8Marriage and Family

Jieyu, Liu

Pages: 123 –141

[This chapter focuses on women’s experiences and expectations of marriage and family. Enabled by changing practices relating to housing allocation, the re-constitution of the private sphere away from the workplace has facilitated women’s enactment of power play in marriage and family. For...
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Chapter 9Conclusion

Jieyu, Liu

Pages: 143 –153

[This chapter restates one central tenet of this book, that is, grounding feminist theory production in local research. Through a nuanced analysis of the Chinese socio-cultural locality, this book demonstrates the multi-complexity of gender and identifies the indeterminacy within the gender...

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