TY - BOOK ID - 33057931 TI - Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China : The Case of the Huang-Lu Elopement PY - 2018 SN - 3319896911 331989692X PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Women KW - Social conditions. KW - Oriental literature. KW - Culture. KW - Gender. KW - Ethnology-Asia. KW - Motion pictures-Asia. KW - Asian Literature. KW - Culture and Gender. KW - Asian Culture. KW - Asian Cinema and TV. KW - Cultural sociology KW - Culture KW - Sociology of culture KW - Civilization KW - Popular culture KW - Asian literature KW - Social aspects KW - Ethnology—Asia. KW - Motion pictures—Asia. KW - Sex. KW - Ethnology KW - Motion pictures KW - Gender Studies. KW - Asian Film and TV. KW - Gender (Sex) KW - Human beings KW - Human sexuality KW - Sex (Gender) KW - Sexual behavior KW - Sexual practices KW - Sexuality KW - Sexology KW - Asia. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33057931 AB - Feminism, Women’s Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China focuses on a sensational elopement in the Yangzi Delta in the late 1920s to explore how middle- and lower-class members of society gained access to and appropriated otherwise alien and abstract enlightenment theories and idioms about love, marriage, and family. Via a network of communications that connected people of differing socioeconomic and educational backgrounds, non-elite women were empowered to display their new womanhood and thereby exercise their self-activating agency to mount resistance to China’s patriarchal system. Qiliang He’s text also investigates the proliferation of anti-feminist conservatisms in legal practice, scholarly discourses, media, and popular culture in the early Nanjing Decade (1927-1937). Utilizing a framework of interdisciplinary scholarship, this book traverses various fields such as legal history, women’s history, popular culture/media studies, and literary studies to explore urban discourse and communication in 1920s China. ER -