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Author | : Hui Faye Xiao |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2014-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 029580498X |
As state control of private life in China has loosened since 1980, citizens have experienced an unprecedented family revolution—an overhaul of family structure, marital practices, and gender relationships. While the nuclear family has become a privileged realm of romance and individualism symbolizing the post-revolutionary “freedoms” of economic and affective autonomy, women’s roles in particular have been transformed, with the ideal “iron girl” of socialism replaced by the feminine, family-oriented “good wife and wise mother.” Problems and contradictions in this new domestic culture have been exposed by China's soaring divorce rate. Reading popular “divorce narratives” in fiction, film, and TV drama, Hui Faye Xiao shows that the representation of marital discord has become a cultural battleground for competing ideologies within post-revolutionary China. While these narratives present women’s cultivation of wifely and maternal qualities as the cure for family disintegration and social unrest, Xiao shows that they in fact reflect a problematic resurgence of traditional gender roles and a powerful mode of control over supposedly autonomous private life.
Author | : Shirley Christian |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780394744575 |
Journalist Christian's masterful, evenhanded account of Nicaragua's Sandinistas derives from years of interviews and on-the-scene observations. Beginning with the last days of the Somoza regime, she details the morass of political intrigue through November 1984. The problem is, she argues, that the success of ``sandinismo'' turned the people from instigators of change into objects of change, both in the eyes of the church and of the state. As the center of the struggle flew out of control onto the battlefields of Havana, Washington, Rome, and Panama, democratic principles were subordinated to other peoples' needs, a no-win situation for the peasants. To draw conclusions about Nicaragua, Christian emphasizes, is a lot more difficult than superficial U.S. policy would imply.
Author | : Shefali Tsabary |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0399563962 |
"New from the New York Times bestselling author of The Conscious Parent comes a radically transformative plan that shows parents how to raise children to be their best, truest selves, "--Amazon.com.
Author | : Kay Ann Johnson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2009-02-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0226401944 |
Kay Ann Johnson provides much-needed information about women and gender equality under Communist leadership. She contends that, although the Chinese Communist Party has always ostensibly favored women's rights and family reform, it has rarely pushed for such reforms. In reality, its policies often have reinforced the traditional role of women to further the Party's predominant economic and military aims. Johnson's primary focus is on reforms of marriage and family because traditional marriage, family, and kinship practices have had the greatest influence in defining and shaping women's place in Chinese society. Conversant with current theory in political science, anthropology, and Marxist and feminist analysis, Johnson writes with clarity and discernment free of dogma. Her discussions of family reform ultimately provide insights into the Chinese government's concern with decreasing the national birth rate, which has become a top priority. Johnson's predictions of a coming crisis in population control are borne out by the recent increase in female infanticide and the government abortion campaign.
Author | : Suzanne Desan |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 475 |
Release | : 2006-06-19 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0520248163 |
Annotation A sophisticated and groundbreaking book on what women actually did and what actually happened to them during the French Revolution.
Author | : Bora Ćosić |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
A comic novella on 1960s Yugoslavia in which a family attempts to create a version of the socialist society in its kitchen. The novella is accompanied by a collection of essays, one of which deals with World War I as seen by Parisians.
Author | : Mary Gottschalk |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781889334042 |
Author | : Marion Joseph Levy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lynn Hunt |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2013-07-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1136135723 |
This latest work from an author known for her contributions to the new cultural history is a daring, multidisciplinary investigation of the imaginative foundations of modern politics. Hunt uses the term `Family Romance', (coined by Freud to describe the fantasy of being freed from one's family and belonging to one of higher social standing), in a broader sense, to describe the images of the familial order that structured the collective political unconscious. In a wide-ranging account that uses novels, engravings, paintings, speeches, newspaper editorials, pornographic writing, and revolutionary legislation about the family, Hunt shows that the politics of the French Revolution were experienced through the network of the family romance.
Author | : Lynn Hunt |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780520082700 |
This latest work from an author known for her contributions to the new cultural history is a daring multidisciplinary investigation of the imaginative foundations of modern politics. "Family romance" was coined by Freud to describe the fantasy of being freed from one's family and belonging to one of higher social standing. In Freud's view, the family romance was a way for individuals to fantasize about their place in the social order. Hunt uses the term more broadly, to describe the images of the familial order underlying revolutionary politics. She investigates the narratives of family relations that structured the collective political unconscious. Most Europeans in the eighteenth century thought of their rulers as fathers and of their nations as families writ large. The French Revolution violently disrupted that patriarchal model of authority and raised troubling questions about what was to replace it. The king and queen were executed after dramatic separate trials. Prosecutors in the trial of the queen accused her of exerting undue influence on the king and his ministers, engaging in sexual debauchery, and even committing incest with her eight-year-old son. Hunt focuses on the meaning of killing the king-father and the queen-mother and what these ritual sacrifices meant to the establishment of a new model of politics. In a wide-ranging account that uses novels, engravings, paintings, speeches, newspaper editorials, pornographic writing, and revolutionary legislation about the family, Hunt shows that politics were experienced through the grid of the family romance.