Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations

Offers a feminist approach to explore how gender affects the lives of well-educated urban Chinese women born in the 1980s Examines gendered attitudes in China to and experiences of marriage, reproductive choices, career and aspirations for a good life Considers feminist theories on gender and intersectionality

Autorentext

Kailing Xie (PhD) is a Teaching Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK. She gained her doctorate at the Centre for Women's Studies, University of York. She was awarded the 2017 Early Career Researcher Prize by the British Association for Chinese Studies for her article 'Premarital Abortion, What is the Harm? The Responsibilisation of Women's Pregnancy among China's "Privileged" Daughters'. Her broader research interests include gender, identity, and nationalism against the backdrop of China's rise on the global stage.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Researching China's Lucky Generation: The Post 80s.- Chapter 2. Women, Family and the Nation in Contemporary China.- Chapter 3. Premarital abortion, what is the harm? The Responsibilisation of women's pregnancy among China's 'privileged' daughters.- Chapter 4. The Right Time for Childbirth: The Naturalisation of Motherhood within Marriage.- Chapter 5. The Gendered Construction of Exemplary Middle-Class Identity: The Hegemony of Chenggong (success).- Chapter 6. Reality Bites: Gendered Experiences of Marriage and Work.- Chapter 7. Concluding Discussion: Living with Contradictions.