Modern Women in China and Japan :: Gender, Feminism and Global Modernity Between the Wars.

At the dawn of the 1930s a new empowered and liberated image of the female was taking root in popular culture in the West. This 'modern woman' archetype was also penetrating into Eastern cultures, however, challenging the Chinese and Japanese historical norm of the woman as homemaker, serv...

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Main Author: Gulliver, Katrina
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : I.B. Tauris, 2012.
Series:Library of modern China studies ; 2.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:At the dawn of the 1930s a new empowered and liberated image of the female was taking root in popular culture in the West. This 'modern woman' archetype was also penetrating into Eastern cultures, however, challenging the Chinese and Japanese historical norm of the woman as homemaker, servant or geisha. Through a focus on the writings of the Western women who engaged with the Far East, and the Eastern writers and personalities who reacted to this new global gender communication by forming their own separate identities, Katrina Gulliver reveals the complex redefining of the self taking place in.
Physical Description:1 online resource (202 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780857721358
0857721356
1848859392
9781848859395
9780857732545
0857732544

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