Transforming Patriarchy Chinese Families in the Twenty-First Century

Santos, Goncalo & Stevan Harrell

ISBN 10: 0295999829 / ISBN 13: 9780295999821

Edité par University of Washington Press, 2016

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• Titre: Transforming Patriarchy Chinese Families in the Twenty-First Century
• Éditeur: University of Washington Press
• Date de parution: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0295999829
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780295999821
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: As New

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Synopsis

Each successive wave of revolution to hit modern China—political, cultural, and economic—has radically reshaped Chinese society. Whereas patriarchy defined the familial social structure for thousands of years, changing realities in the last hundred years have altered and even reversed long-held expectations. Transforming Patriarchy explores the private and public dimensions of these changes in present-day China. Patriarchy is not dead, but it is no longer the default arrangement for Chinese families: Daughters-in-law openly berate their fathers-in-law. Companies sell filial-piety insurance. Many couples live together before marriage, and in some parts of rural China, almost all brides are pregnant. Drawing on a multitude of sources and perspectives, this volume turns to the intimate territory of the family to challenge prevailing scholarly assumptions about gender and generational hierarchies in Chinese society. Case studies examine factors such as social class, geography, and globalization as they relate to patriarchal practice and resistance to it. The contributors bring the concept of patriarchy back to the heart of China studies while rethinking its significance in dominant Western-centric theories of modernity.

À propos des auteurs

Gonçalo Santos is auxilliary professor of socio-cultural anthropology at the University of Coimbra, and associate professor in the Institute of Social Anthropology at Nanjing University. He is the coeditor of Transforming Patriarchy: Chinese Families in the 21st Century (University of Washington Press, 2017) and Chinese Kinship: Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives (Routledge, 2009).

Stevan Harrell is professor emeritus of anthropology and environmental and forest sciences at the University of Washington. He is the author of Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China (University of Washington Press, 2001) and An Ecological History of Modern China (University of Washington Press, 2023); and editor of the University of Washington Press book series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China.