Chinese Men's Practices of Intimacy, Embodiment and Kinship (eBook)

Crafting Elastic Masculinity

Siyang Cao (Autor)

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2021 | 1., First Edition
252 Seiten
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-1299-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explores Chinese young men's views of manhood and develops a new concept of 'elastic masculinity' which can be stretched and forged differently in response to personal relationships and local realities.Drawing from empirical research, the author uses the term shenti (body-self) as a central concept to investigate the Chinese male body and explores intimacy and kinship within masculinity. She showcases how Chinese masculinities reflect the resilience of Confucian notions as well as transnational ideas of modern manhood.This is a unique dialogue with western discourse on masculinity, and an invaluable resource for understanding the profound social changes that transformed gendered arrangements in urban China.

Autor

Siyang Cao is a Post-doctoral fellow at the School of Social Development at East China Normal University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.6.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Gender and Sociology
• Verlagsort: Bristol
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: body-self • Chinese men • confucian • Confucianism • contemporary China • Cultural Identity • manhood • Masculinity • shenti • Urban China
• ISBN-10: 1-5292-1299-5 / 1529212995
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5292-1299-0 / 9781529212990