CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 40Gender and Feminist StudiesHistorical Gender and Feminism StudiesGender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

The Subject of Gender: Daughters and Mothers in Urban China

Evans, Harriet·2007·Rowman & Littlefield Publishers eBooks
DOI 10.5771/9781461645726
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

Women in urban China have lived through decades of political turbulence, extensive socio-economic change, and the transformation of gender practices, expectations, and relationships. Among these is the mother-daughter relationship, one that has profound influence on women's gendered subjectivity but one that has been overlooked in research on gender and family in China. In The Subject of Gender, Harriet Evans reflects on how women in urban China make sense of the shifts in practices and representations of gender that frame their lives and how their self-identification as mothers and daughters contributes to the redefinition of those practices. Based on the memories and experiences of educated and professional women of different ages, this book discusses the mother-daughter relationship through various themes: separation, communication, domestic/public boundaries, male privilege, the sexed body, reproduction, and filial responsibilities. This fascinating work draws on feminist and critical theory and on anthropological and historical research to analyze the changing articulations of gender subjectivity that emerge from the links between discursive shifts, generational difference, and individual experiences of the mother-daughter relationship.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.5771/9781461645726

Cites

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Into the 1990s, as private ownership and enterprise began to take off in the urban sector, many women of the older cohorts found themselves being prematurely retired or laid off.

    “Into the 1990s, as private ownership and enterprise began to take off in the urban sector, many women of the older cohorts found themselves being prematurely retired or laid off.”

    From “Patchy Patriarchy” and the Shifting Fortunes of the CCP's Promise of Gender Equality since 1921 (2021) · cites this paper as [16]

  • Official statistics reveal that by the end of 1997, across the country, women constituted 62.8 per cent of the laid-off workers, while they accounted for less than 39 per cent of the total urban workforce.

    “Official statistics reveal that by the end of 1997, across the country, women constituted 62.8 per cent of the laid-off workers, while they accounted for less than 39 per cent of the total urban workforce. 16”

    From “Patchy Patriarchy” and the Shifting Fortunes of the CCP's Promise of Gender Equality since 1921 (2021) · cites this paper as [16]

Cites

Still being checked.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Related

Authors
Evans, H.
Corresponding author
Evans, Harriet
ORCID
Evans, Harriet
Venue
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers eBooks
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published
2007
DOI
10.5771/9781461645726
OpenAlex
W4393067744
Cited by
38
References
0
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 2 · 2016: 3 · 2013: 1
FWCI
1.30
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
Keywords
mother-daughter relationships, gendered subjectivity, urban women, Chinese women, gender and family, filial duty, male privilege, sexed body, reproduction, generational differences, gender practices

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review