Once iron girls : essays on gender by post-Mao Chinese literary women / edited by Hui Wu.

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Book
Language
English
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Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2010.
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xiii, 154 pages ; 24 cm

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    "Available in English for the first time, Once Iron Girls: Essays on Gender by Post-Mao Chinese Literary Women brings together twenty-five essays by seven critically acclaimed writers, whose fiction and poetry have become classics in modern Chinese literature. Poetic, metaphoric, and sometimes playful and satiric, the essays discuss the material reality wherein Chinese women live and function. Reflecting on their experiences under Mao and in post-Maoist China, these essays vividly demonstrate that, despite equality of the sexes being the official position and women working equally demanding jobs as men, women are still considered servile to their male counterparts." "Taken together, the collection shows Chinese women struggling for identity by discussing the issues that are important in their lives. Unlike Western feminists, they do not want to be seen as different from their male counterparts. Nor do they want to fall into Chinese terminology of being the same as men. Rather, these essays show that women want to be seen first and foremost as human and then as female. By showcasing the politics and poetics of Chinese women's essays to an English audience, Hui Wu's translations uncover the philosophy and purpose behind the literature of a unique generation of Chinese women, whose life experience finds no parallel in China and certainly not in the West."--Jacket.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Bi Shumin. A writer's face
    • Androgyny
    • When can women start enjoying life?
    • Seeking amazing women
    • Fang Fang. Obedience versus disobedience
    • Women's eyes
    • On women
    • May my dream come true
    • Han Xiaohui. Gender roles in commercials
    • I don't want to be a woman
    • Three autumnal phases in a day
    • Women don't cry
    • Hu Xin. WOmen's footprints of pain
    • A pink humore
    • My view on women
    • Lu Xing'er. Women's "Sameness" and "Difference"
    • On "Femininity"
    • One is not born a woman
    • Women and the crisis
    • Shu ting. Shadow of the Chaste Temple
    • Give her some space
    • A mirror of one's own
    • Zhang Kangkang. We need two worlds
    • A preface for myself
    • The "Grand" realm versus the "True" realm.
    ISBN
    • 9780739134214 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 0739134213
    • 9780739134238
    • 073913423X
    LCCN
    2009037696
    OCLC
    441945321
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