China Gender and Sexuality Flashcards
Describe
In the Mao years:
Politics: state feminism and female red guards in the cultural revolution , women liberation
women in production: desexualization, defeminization, and degenderiing
Define state feminism in the Maoist Era
- priortize nationalism, state builiding, class struggle
“Gender erasure” is unisex dress code, and gender equality (laborer) ; downplayed differences and romantic love/sexuality - masulinzation and militarization of women ( red detachment)
Explain Post-Mao consumerism and sexual revolution
- commerical culture: “male gaze” of female image
- rise of female desire
- crisis in Chinese mas (impotence epidemic)
Define hyper masc and national allegory
- wounded chinese masc (symptom of crisis) to gender nationalism
- kpop gender production as a counter failing mechanism with female gender neutrality of crossdressing in kpop
EXplain the Red detachment
relatively peaceful years with skrimishes between communists nationalisst and other local warlords
define gender erasure
gender became an unmarked and neutralized cateogry its role as a vessel of self identity was diminished and it lost its significance for gender politics which was replaced by class politics
- woman slave to solider
- critical patriarchy and traditional gender relations, but also reproducing them by constructing new male leadership
- emphasizes sisterhood and repressed romance
define wolf warriors 2
post socialist re emergence of gender discourse: re affirming gender divisions through two main characters, ,aligning several binaries
- new kind of capture of sex gender system by aligned forces of state capitalism promotes gender difference , individualism, and hyper sexualization of both men and women; sex drive for consumerism and capitalist marketing
Define state fmeinism from lecture
state has an active role in improving women’s position and propelling them to public sphere outside of the home
entry into male workforce
banned arranged marriage and prostituion
Gender erasure in maoist period
unisex code during the Culturalrevolution people of both sexes dressed to identify with peasants, workers soliders- baggy pants hapless jackets, brown, olive, blue
romantic love and seuality were downplayed even repressed
sexual ignorance of many urban young pppl
Women in men’s occupation:
mechanic, engineer, shipbuilder, and airplane pilot
deifne china’s sexual revoluton post mao
sexual desire dissocatied from reproduction
- love and sexual desire threatened Maosist order, promotes individual freedom from obligations to family and state
- urban men had watched smuggled pornogrpahy for sexual desire
- state eased restrictions on sexual desire as consumer distraction, apolitical, non-threat, freedom of information
Post mao in chinese masc.
have pressure to perform and compete economically and sexually
define national allegory
a narrative that expresses a hidden layer of political meaning about the plight and fate of a nation. and aims to blind the audience together in shared concerns about their nation
- anti colonial nationalism is often expressed in terms of a culture of masc
