Tani Barlow: In the Event of Women

Cover: 9781478014447 | In the Event of Women | Tani Barlow | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2022

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In the Event of Women outlines the stakes of what Tani Barlow calls "the event of women." Focusing on the era of the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century's Cultural Revolution, Barlow shows that an event is a politically inspired action to install a newly discovered truth, in this case the mammal origins of human social evolution. Highbrow and lowbrow social theory circulating in Chinese urban print media placed humanity's origin story in relation to commercial capital's modern advertising industry and the conclusion that women's liberation involved selling, buying, and advertising industrial commodities. The political struggle over how the truth of women in China would be performed and understood, Barlow shows, means in part that an event of women was likely global because its truth is vested in biology and physiology. In so doing, she reveals the ways in which historical universals are effected in places where truth claims are not usually sought. This book reconsiders Alain Badiou's concept of the event; particularly the question of whose political moment marks newly discovered truths.

Über den Autor

Tani Barlow is George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University and the founding senior editor of positions: asia critique. She is the author and editor of many books and journal issues, including The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism, The Modern Girl around the World, and New Asian Marxisms, all also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction to the Event 1
1. Conditions of Thinking 19
2. Foundational Chinese Sociology 71
3. Vernacular Sociology 100
4. The Social Life of Commercial Ephemera 123
5. Nakedness and Interiority 162
6. Wang Guangmei's Qipao 191
Conclusion 220
Notes 231
Bibliography 259
Index 283

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781478014447
ISBN-10:	147801444X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Barlow, Tani
Hersteller:	Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Maße:	229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Tani Barlow
Erscheinungsdatum:	14.01.2022
Gewicht:	0,446 kg