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Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese CompaniesTowards a Local Feminist Understanding of Gender and Sexuality

Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies: Towards a Local Feminist Understanding of... [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 resistance Chinese women experience at the workplace. It brings together Western feminist literature of gender and sexuality at work, discussions around sexuality in development studies, and historical studies of gender and sexuality in China. These are rarely, if ever, brought into dialogue, but have something to offer to our nuanced understandings of the Chinese workplace as well as global feminist theorization of gender, sexuality and power.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese CompaniesTowards a Local Feminist Understanding of Gender and Sexuality

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017. The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988.
ISBN
978-1-137-50574-3
Pages
33 –54
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-50575-0_3
Publisher site
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Abstract

[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 resistance Chinese women experience at the workplace. It brings together Western feminist literature of gender and sexuality at work, discussions around sexuality in development studies, and historical studies of gender and sexuality in China. These are rarely, if ever, brought into dialogue, but have something to offer to our nuanced understandings of the Chinese workplace as well as global feminist theorization of gender, sexuality and power.]

Published: Nov 9, 2016

Keywords: Chinese Woman; Sexual Pleasure; Gender Division; Symbolic Power; Direct Power

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