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Chinese women intellectuals–cfp
Dear all,
Please see the Call for Papers below for a roundtable we are proposing for next year’s AAS conference in Toronto. And apologies for the rather tight deadline – 3 August!
Gerda Wielander and Sarah Dauncey
Chinese Women Intellectuals and China’s Academia
There is no mentioning of gender equality in China without quoting the old Mao adage of women holding up half the sky. Where Chinese academia is concerned, however, it is more the case of women holding up the ceiling on top of which male academics may bask in the sunlight. Women remain in the shadow, more often than not sitting at women only tables at conferences and conducting research to which their male superiors put their names. Junior researchers are denied the same chances as their male colleagues.  Women academics are often confined to clerical work; they are rarely leaders of departments or Deans. Subjects like politics or international relations, finance or economics are often entirely male dominated – a trend that is starting to be reproduced at international conferences on China studies.
The second class position of women in Chinese academia reflects a wider phenomenon of gender differentiation in Chinese society. Neo-Confucianists have recently praised polygamy as the least bad type of relationship between men and women, leading to more stability than monogamous relationships. Chinese bookstores contain shelves full of “Readings for Women”, mostly concerned with their ideal comportment, their ideal behaviour in relationships, including sexual relationships, and their general psychological well-being, which seems to revolve around being educated yet unassertive, beautiful yet modest, and first and foremost accepting of the limits to their achievements and happiness. And, all the while on social media, highly educated women are mocked as “leftover women”, the sexless “third gender”, “yellowed pearls”…
In order, therefore, to put the spotlight on and celebrate the contributions of the many women who have played leading roles in making Chinese academia what it is today, we are looking for contributions to this round table, which take any one of the following approaches:
Case studies of individual women intellectuals, analysing the intellectual contribution her work has made to the critical examination of China’s society
Critical analysis of Chinese approaches to feminism, including recent writings on ‘Chinese/Confucian’ feminism
Case studies and analysis of Chinese women feminist artists, writers and activists
Social science based studies on the role gender plays in academic advancement in China today
Analysis of the role of mainstream media, social media and broader socio-political discourse in reinforcing or contesting stereotypes of Chinese educated women
Please send your abstracts (250 words) to Gerda Wielander (G.Wielander at westminster.ac.uk ) or Sarah Dauncey (Sarah.Dauncey at nottingham.ac.uk ) by Wednesday 3 August. If you are interested, please do get in touch with us as soon as possible.
Dr Sarah Dauncey
Associate Professor of Contemporary Chinese Studies
The University of Nottingham
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/chinese/index.aspx
Co-Editor, Journal of the British Association for Chinese Studies (JBACS)
http://www.bacsuk.org.uk/
School of Sociology and Social Policy
LASS
The University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham
Tel: +44 (0)115 95 15954
by denton.2 at osu.edu on July 26, 2016
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