Gendering generations : redefining masculine life stages in modern China
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation, drawing on archives and collections in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, is a cultural history of how Chinese masculine life stages changed and coexisted over the course of the tumultuous twentieth century. In four case study-based chapters, it shows how new ideas of age- and gender-appropriate behavior for Chinese men at differing life stages in disparate historical moments emerged in tandem. New life stages were created in dialogue with longstanding traditions, international debates, and emerging problems of modernity. Each chapter centers on a life stage that proved key to the formation of a new understanding of masculinity, beginning with boyhood in the early twentieth century and closing with old manhood at the turn of the twenty-first century. This life-cycle structure overlays the historical timeline on the biological timeline and reveals how gender norms interacted with ideas about age-appropriate behavior. It also illustrates how generationally-divided understandings of gender and life stages existed simultaneously. Rather than provide a comprehensive taxonomy of age-specific masculinities, Gendering Generations emphasizes the life stage as a category of analysis and identity in China's gender history.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Elmore, Andrew Geniesse |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Mullaney, Thomas S. (Thomas Shawn) |
| Thesis advisor | Mullaney, Thomas S. (Thomas Shawn) |
| Thesis advisor | Freedman, Estelle B, 1947- |
| Thesis advisor | Sommer, Matthew Harvey, 1961- |
| Degree committee member | Freedman, Estelle B, 1947- |
| Degree committee member | Sommer, Matthew Harvey, 1961- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of History. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Andrew Geniesse Elmore. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of History. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2019 by Andrew Geniesse Elmore
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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