{"product_id":"gender-sexuality-and-power-in-chinese-companies-beauties-at-work-9781137505743","title":"Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies: Beauties at Work","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Liu Jieyu\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: World - Asian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book offers the first ethnographic account of the experiences of highly educated young professional women, hailed by the Chinese media as 'white-collar beauties'. It exposes the organizational mechanisms - naturalization, objectification and commodification of women - that wield gendered and sexual control in post-Mao workplaces. Whilst men benefit from symbolic and bureaucratic power, women professionals skilfully enact indirect power in a game of domination and resistance. The sources of women's subversion are grounded in their only-child upbringing which breaks the patrilineal base of familial patriarchy fostering an unprecedented ambition in personal development, gender as inherently relational and a role-oriented system, and inner-outer cultural boundaries as signifiers of moral agency. This raises a new feminist inquiry about the agents for social change. Through a nuanced analysis grounded in the socio-cultural locality, this book throws fresh light upon the ways in which gender, sexuality and power could be theorized beyond a Euro-American reality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45276247163031,"sku":"9781137505743","price":7345.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781137505743.webp?v=1769285117","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/gender-sexuality-and-power-in-chinese-companies-beauties-at-work-9781137505743","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}