Overview

This volume examines how Chinese women negotiate the Internet as a research tool and a strategy for the acquisition of information, as well as for social networking purposes. Offering insight into the complicated creation of a female Chinese cybercommunity, Chinese Women and the Cyberspace discusses the impact of increasingly available Internet technology on the life and lifestyle of Chinese women-examining larger issues of how women become both masters of their electronic domain and the objects of exploitation in a faceless online world. University of Hong Kong.

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Author:   Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce
Publisher:   Amsterdam University Press
Imprint:   Amsterdam University Press
Volume:   2
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.471kg
ISBN:  

9789053567517

ISBN 10:   9053567518
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   21 May 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Table of contents[-] - 6[-]Acknowledgements[-] - 8[-]List of Tables[-] - 10[-]1. Introduction[-] - 12[-]Part I: Work, Leisure, Politics and Identity[-] - 24[-] 2. Internet als Social Capital and Social Networrk[-] - 26[-] 3. Agency and ICT among Singaporean-Chinese Women[-] - 48[-] 4. Can the INternet Help? How Immigrant Women from China Get Jobs[-] - 66[-] 5. Cyberactivism in the Women's Movement[-] - 96[-] 6. Cyber Self-centres?[-] - 118[-] 7. Embeddedness and Virtual Community[-] - 136[-] 8. Electronic Park Benches[-] - 156[-]Part II: Love, Sex and Marriage[-] - 180[-] 9. Sapphic Shadows[-] - 182[-] 10. Sex & Life Politics Formes Through the Internet[-] - 204[-] 11. On Sale in Express Package[-] - 224[-] 12. Boundary-Crossing through Cyberspace[-] - 250[-] Contributors[-] - 272[-] Index[-] - 274

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KUAH-PEARCE khun Eng is associate professor and head of the Department of Sociology, and Honorary Academic Director of the Centre for Anthropological Research at the University of Hong Kong.

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