Gender, sexuality and power in chinese companies: beauties at work
Auteur :
Jieyu, Liu
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781349700691
Date de publication :
13 nov. 2020
Dimensions :
21,0 x 14,8 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This book offers the first ethnographic account of the experiences of highly educated young professional women, hailed by the Chinese media as ‘white-collar beauties’. Whilst men benefit from symbolic and bureaucratic power, women professionals skilfully enact indirect power in a game of domination and resistance.