Through the lens of the discursive reconstruction and cultural reimagining of sisterhood, this book investigates the dynamic entanglements and contestations among women, nation, and Chinese modernity.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Gender, Nation, Subjectivities, and the Discourse on Sisterhood in Modern China
Chapter 1 The Emergence of the "Women's Sphere" and the Promotion of Sisterhood in the Late Qing
Chapter 2 From Dual Slaves to Liberty Flowers: The Feminist-Nationalist Spectrum of Sisterhood in Stones of the Jingwei Bird and Chivalric Beauties
Chapter 3 Is Blood Always Thicker than Water? Rival Sisters and the Tensions of Modernity
Chapter 4 Cosmopolitan Bourgeois Sisterhood and the Ambiguities of Female-Centeredness in Lin Loon Magazine (1931-1937)
Chapter 5 Sisterly Lovers in Women's Fiction and the Potential of "Nondevelopment" as a Feminist Intervention
Conclusion
