Revalorizing Gendered Self-Worth in China
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Elvera Kwang Siam Lim Memorial Lecture in Chinese Studies
"Revalorizing Gendered Self-Worth in China's New Age of Private Property."
Professor Li Zhang, UC Davis
November 11, 2008
This lecture explores how the privatization of home ownership and a rising material culture of consumerism reconfigure the intimate realm of self-worth, love, and marriage in urban China. Through several ethnographic cases, my research shows how owning a private house has gradually become the decisive factor in considering marriage and a focal point of contention in dissolving that relationship. In this context, I suggest that self-worth has become more and more individualized and materialized through the idiom of property possession. After thirty years of economic reform, the socially embedded nature of the self that was once at the heart of a moral economy is being eclipsed by an individual-centered, materialistic determinism nurtured by a market economy. This social reconfiguration however is a gendered process. While the meanings of masculinities have shifted toward ones ability to make money, possess desirable material goods, or gain political power, the construction of self-worth among women tends to focus on the body and physical appearance, which serve as the material foundation for constructing femininities.
Discussant: You-tien Hsing, Associate Professor, Geography, UC Berkeley
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@qouqube :
what do u think about what ?
I guess the world is becoming increasingly similar. More and more, people everywhere are becoming incresasingly materialistic. The East and the West are just as hopeless in the moral well-being. What surprises me is that this lady acted as if she thinks the Chinese situation funny & weird. But compared to what ? I think the West are just as funny & weird. The moral values all down the drain today. Moral crisis the outcome of materialization of societies.
gandhigujarati 1 year ago
what do u think about it then?
qouqube 3 years ago