Gender and Generation in China Today
This book examines how gender and generational relations have been influenced by the vast changes in the Chinese society since the start of the Reform era in 1978. It offers a short introduction to Chinas recent development and the relationship between Chinese and Nordic gender research. Three articles in the book focus on how the developments in the Reform era have produced generational changes in feminist politics, in the labour market, and between young people and their parents and what impacts these changes have for gender relations. Two articles investigate changes in middle-class motherhoods and fatherhoods towards more emphasis on intimacy and love between parents and child, but often in asynchronicity with traditional gender roles among the parents. In addition, the book comprises a review of a recent volume about transforming Chinese patriarchy, and an essay reflecting on what the implications for Nordic/Western gender studies of Chinas increasing presence and influence globally as well as in the Nordic region could or should be.
This book is a significant new contribution to gender studies and politics, and will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Literature, History, Sociology, Politics, and Gender.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of NORANordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research.
Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen is Professor at the Centre for Gender Research at the University of Oslo. She was the director of the centre 19932009. Her area of research is gender, age, generation, and social change. Her latest book is Feeling Gender: A Generational and Psychosocial Approach, published in 2017 as open access.
Gender and Generation in China Today
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Contents
Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen
Qi Wang
Sandra V. Constantin
Lisa Eklund
Michala Hvidt Breengaard
Xuan Li
Cecilia Nathansen Milwertz
Susanne Bregnbk
The chapters in this book were originally published in NORANordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, volume 26, issue 4 (2018). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Gender and Generation in Times of Change in China
Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen
NORANordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, volume 26, issue 4 (2018), pp. 255259
From Non-governmental Organizing to Outer-systemFeminism and Feminist Resistance in Post-2000 China
Qi Wang
NORANordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, volume 26, issue 4 (2018), pp. 260277
Increasing Employment Precariousness in Post-socialist China: Everyone Equal in a World of Uncertainty?
Sandra V. Constantin
NORANordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, volume 26, issue 4 (2018), pp. 278294
Filial Daughter? Filial Son? How Chinas Young Urban Elite Negotiate Intergenerational Obligations
Lisa Eklund
NORANordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, volume 26, issue 4 (2018), pp. 295312
Feeding Mothers Love: Stories of Breastfeeding and Mothering in Urban China
Michala Hvidt Breengaard
NORANordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, volume 26, issue 4 (2018), pp. 313330
Chinese Fathers in the Twentieth Century: Changing Roles as Parents and as Men
Xuan Li
NORANordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, volume 26, issue 4 (2018), pp. 331350
A New Generation of Sino-Nordic Gender Matters
Cecilia Nathansen Milwertz
NORANordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, volume 26, issue 4 (2018), pp. 351356
Book Review: Transforming Chinese Patriarchy: Chinese Families in the Twenty-first Century
Susanne Bregnbk
NORANordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, volume 26, issue 4 (2018), pp. 367369
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Michala Hvidt Breengaard, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Susanne Bregnbk, Department of Pedagogy and Social Science, University College Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Sandra V. Constantin, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, UK.
Lisa Eklund, Department of Sociology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Xuan Li, Arts and Sciences, New York University Shanghai, Shanghai, China.
Cecilia Nathansen Milwertz, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
