About Chinese Women

224 Pages·1977·7.207 MB·English

by  Julia Kristeva, Anita Barrows (transl.)

$8.95
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Kristeua’s work, highly regarded and
widely sold in France, examines the
new Chines woman, asking how her
change in status links up the private
erotic realm with the public realm of
power. Though traditional Chinese
society was not sexually repressive in
the Western style, the questions
regarding women's rights and political
suffrage were broached about the
same time as in the West. In the
seedtime of revolution, women made
independent by semi-industrialization
could now do economically and
sexually without a husband, even to
the point of secret lesbian societies.
Mao realized that feeling for the
nation would remain weak so long as
the patriarchal family remained
strong. His unprecedented statements
regarding marriage may be viewed as
intending to dissolve the family bond,
not as a biological unit but as a social
unit which works against the
development of the long-suppressed
Chinese woman. The developments
that liberate women liberate society
and the human personality. In a
fascinating book intended for the
general reader, Kristeva details the
emergence of this new and quite
extraordinary Chinese woman.
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396.051 Kristeva, Julia* 1941—
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Kristeva. - New York Urizen Books*
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211 p.
Translation of Des Chinoisesi
Bibliography: p.
ISBN 0-916354-84-9
1. Women-China. I. Title.
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ABOUT CHINESE WOMEN

ABOUT CHINESE WOMEN
Julia Kristeva
translated from the French by
Anita Barrows
Urizen Books, New York
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*Ublic Co
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Originally published in Frandein 1974 as Des Chinoises by Editions des Fem¬
mes
© Editions des Femmes 1974
© This translation Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd 1977
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No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or
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lisher.
First American edition published by:
Urizen Books
66 West Broadway
New York, New York 10007
Printed in U.S.A.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Kristeva, Julia, 1941—
About Chinese women.
Translation of Des Chinoises.
Bibliography: p. 210
1. Women-China. I. Title.
HQ1738.K713 301.41'2 0951 76-57658
ISBN 0-916354-84-9
Table of Contents
FROM THIS SIDE
I. WHO IS SPEAKING? 11
II. THE WAR BETWEEN THE SEXES 17
III. THE VIRGIN OF THE WORD 25
IV. OUTSIDE TIME 34
V. I WHO WANT NOT TO BE 39
CHINESE WOMEN
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I. THE MOTHER AT THE CENTRE 45
II. CONFUCIUS-AN EATER OF WOMEN 66
III. SOCIALISM AND FEMINISM 100
IV. WOMEN AND THE PARTY 112
V. THE MARRIAGE LAW (1950). LOVE AND
DEMOGRAPHY. WOMEN IN COMMAND. 128
VI. INTERVIEWS 157
vn. TO RISK A RENAISSANCE 196
Afterword to the American Edition 202
BIBLIOGRAPHY 210
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