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Gender and Sexuality

China

Women in Tianjin, 1898-1911

A review of Beauty and A Broken City: Women and Their Publicity in Tianjin, 1898-1911, by Vanessa Qin Fang. As Vanessa Qin Fang’s dissertation demonst...
Gender

“Professional Girlfriends” in Cambodia

A review of Negotiating Intimacy: Transactional Sex and Relationships Among Cambodian Professional Girlfriends, by Heidi Hoefinger. Monetized sexual r...
Gender

Breastfeeding in the Twentieth Century

A review of Feeding Babies, Making Mothers: The Science, Practice and Meaning of Breastfeeding in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century, by Jessica...
China

Modern Weddings for a Modern China

A review of Balancing Rites and Rights: The Social and Cultural Politics of New-Style Weddings in Republican Shanghai, 1898-1953, by CHARLOTTE LUCIA C...
China

Modern Homes, Modern Families, Modern China

A review of Modern Homes for Modern Families in Tianjin, China, 1860-1949, by ELIZABETH LaCOUTURE. Elizabeth LaCouture’s dissertation is structured ar...
China

Chinese Women on the Run

A review of On the Run: Women, City, and the Law in Beijing, 1937-1949, by ZHAO MA.  Zhao Ma opens with several cases of “deserting...
China

Christianity, Literacy, Female Consciousness in Northeast China, 1830-1930

A review of Becoming Faithful: Christianity, Literacy, and Female Consciousness in Northeast China, 1830-1930, by JI LI.  Ji Li’s dissertation is a fa...
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