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$8.95 About Chinese Women 9 by Julia Kristeva 2 2 1 7 Kristeua’s work, highly regarded and widely sold in France, examines the new Chines woman, asking how her change in status links up the private erotic realm with the public realm of power. Though traditional Chinese society was not sexually repressive in the Western style, the questions regarding women's rights and political suffrage were broached about the same time as in the West. In the seedtime of revolution, women made independent by semi-industrialization could now do economically and sexually without a husband, even to the point of secret lesbian societies. Mao realized that feeling for the nation would remain weak so long as the patriarchal family remained strong. His unprecedented statements regarding marriage may be viewed as intending to dissolve the family bond, not as a biological unit but as a social unit which works against the development of the long-suppressed Chinese woman. The developments that liberate women liberate society and the human personality. In a fascinating book intended for the general reader, Kristeva details the emergence of this new and quite extraordinary Chinese woman. DATE DUE Printed in USA HIGHSMITH #- 16230 « a 396.051 Kristeva, Julia* 1941— E898a About Chinese women Julia Kristeva. - New York Urizen Books* [ 1977 ] 211 p. Translation of Des Chinoisesi Bibliography: p. ISBN 0-916354-84-9 1. Women-China. I. Title. POCK CARD 770623, CSf 9202161 76-57658 SF 301.41/2/0951 wm ABOUT CHINESE WOMEN ABOUT CHINESE WOMEN Julia Kristeva translated from the French by Anita Barrows Urizen Books, New York Ff *Ublic Co LiBRary Originally published in Frandein 1974 as Des Chinoises by Editions des Fem¬ mes © Editions des Femmes 1974 © This translation Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd 1977 All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy¬ ing, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission of the pub¬ lisher. First American edition published by: Urizen Books 66 West Broadway New York, New York 10007 Printed in U.S.A. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Kristeva, Julia, 1941— About Chinese women. Translation of Des Chinoises. Bibliography: p. 210 1. Women-China. I. Title. HQ1738.K713 301.41'2 0951 76-57658 ISBN 0-916354-84-9 Table of Contents FROM THIS SIDE I. WHO IS SPEAKING? 11 II. THE WAR BETWEEN THE SEXES 17 III. THE VIRGIN OF THE WORD 25 IV. OUTSIDE TIME 34 V. I WHO WANT NOT TO BE 39 CHINESE WOMEN i I. THE MOTHER AT THE CENTRE 45 II. CONFUCIUS-AN EATER OF WOMEN 66 III. SOCIALISM AND FEMINISM 100 IV. WOMEN AND THE PARTY 112 V. THE MARRIAGE LAW (1950). LOVE AND DEMOGRAPHY. WOMEN IN COMMAND. 128 VI. INTERVIEWS 157 vn. TO RISK A RENAISSANCE 196 Afterword to the American Edition 202 BIBLIOGRAPHY 210 f ' i ■
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