@article{1436103,
      author = {Xie, Kailing,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1436103},
      title = {Embodying middle class gender aspirations : perspectives  from China's privileged young women /},
      abstract = {This book takes a feminist approach to analyse the lives  of well-educated urban Chinese women, who were raised to  embody the ideals of a modern Chinese nation and are  largely the beneficiaries of the policy changes of the  post-Mao era. It explores young women's gendered attitudes  to and experiences of marriage, reproductive choices,  careers and aspirations for a good life. It sheds light on  what keeps mainstream Chinese middle-class women conforming  to the current gender regime. It illuminates the  contradictory effects of neoliberal techniques deployed by  a familial authoritarian regime on these women's striving  for success in urban China, and argues that, paradoxically,  women's individualistic determination to succeed has often  led them onto the path of conformity by pursuing exemplary  norms which fit into the party-state's agenda. Kailing Xie  (PhD) is a Teaching Fellow at the Department of Politics  and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK. She  gained her doctorate at the Centre for Women's Studies,  University of York. She was awarded the 2017 Early Career  Researcher Prize by the British Association for Chinese  Studies for her article 'Premarital Abortion, What is the  Harm? The Responsibilisation of Women's Pregnancy among  China's "Privileged" Daughters'. Her broader research  interests include gender, identity, and nationalism against  the backdrop of China's rise on the global stage.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1139-1},
      recid = {1436103},
      pages = {1 online resource (xvii, 305 pages) :},
}