Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities

Susan Brownell is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. She is the author of Training the Body for China: Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic (1995). Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University. He is the author of Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China: The View from Shanghai (1991) and coeditor of Popular Protest and Political Culture in China (1994).

• Foreword Thomas Laqueur Introduction: Theorizing Femininities and Masculinities Susan Brownell and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom Part I. Gender and the Law (Qing) 1. Femininity in Flux: Gendered Virtue and Social Conflict in the Mid-Qing Courtroom Janet M. Theiss 2. Dangerous Males, Vulnerable Males, and Polluted Males: The Regulation of Masculinity in Qing Dynasty Law Matthew H. Sommer Part II. Ideals of Marriage and Family (Mid-Qing and Early Republican) 3. Grooming a Daughter for Marriage: Brides and Wives in the Mid--Qing Period Susan Mann 4. "The Truths I Have Learned": Nationalism, Family Reform, and Male Identity in China's New Culture Movement, 1916--1922 Susan L. Glosser Part III. Gender in Literary Traditions (May Fourth to Reform Eras) 5. Invention and Intervention: The Making of a Female Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature Lydia H. Liu 6. The Self Loving the Self: Men and Connoisseurship in Modern Chinese Literature Wendy Larson Part IV. Dangerous Women and Dangerous Men (Late Ming to Early Communist) 7. Modernizing Sex, Sexing Modernity: Prostitution in Early-Twentieth-Century Shanghai Gail Hershatter 8. Approximations of Chinese Bandits: Perverse Rebels, Romantic Heroes, or Frustrated Bachelors? David Ownby Part V. The Gender of Rebels (Cultural Revolution) 9. Maoist Mappings of Gender: Reassessing the Red Guards Emily Honig 10. "Little Brothers" in the Cultural Revolution: The Worker Rebels of Shanghai Elizabeth J. Perry and Nara Dillon Part VI. Blood, Qi, and the Gendered Body (Qing and Reform Era) 11. Blood, Body, and Gender: Medical Images of the Female Condition in China, 1600--1850 Charlotte Furth 12. Embodying Qi and Masculinities in Post-Mao China Nancy N. Chen Part VII. Shifting Contexts of Gender and Sexuality (Reform Era) 13. Past, Perfect or Imperfect: Changing Images of the Ideal Wife Harriet Evans 14. Proper Men and Proper Women: Parental Affection in the Chinese Family William Jankowiak Part VIII. Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity (Reform Era) 15. Gender and Internal Orientalism in China Louisa Schein 16. Tradition and the Gender of Civility Ralph Litzinger Afterword: Putting Gender at the Center Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Susan Brownell Contributors Index