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1 online resource (275 pages) |
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data file |
| Series |
ICAS publication series. Edited volumes ; 2 |
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ICAS publication series. Edited volumes ; 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction : locating Chinese women in the cyberspace -- Part I: Work, leisure, politics and identity -- 2. Internet as social capital and social network : cyberactivity of Hong Kong and Shanghai women -- 3. Agency and ICT among Singaporean-Chinese women -- 4. Can the Internet help? : how immigrant women from China get jobs, a survey on PRC immigrants' employment status in Canada -- 5. Cyberactivism in the women's movement : a comparison of feminist practices by women organizing in mainland China and Hong Kong -- 6. Cyber self-centres? : young Hong Kong women and their personal websites -- 7. Embeddedness and virtual community : Chinese women and online shopping -- 8. Electronic park benches : online mothers in Hong Kong using the Baby Kingdom-- Part II: Love, sex and marriage -- 9. Sapphic shadows : sworn sisterhoods and cyber lesbian communities in Hong Kong-- 10. Sex & life politics formed through the Internet : online & offline dating experiences of young women in Shanghai -- 11. On sale in express package : Chinese female bodies as commondities in cyberspace-- 12. Boundary-crossing through cyberspace : Chinese women and transnational marriages since 1984. |
| Summary |
This edited book examines how Chinese women negotiate the Internet to empower themselves and the tensions and conflicts that arise out of this use. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Internet and women -- China.
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Internet -- Social aspects -- China.
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Internet et femmes -- Chine.
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Internet -- Aspect social -- Chine.
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Mathematics and science.
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Science: general issues.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Internet and women
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Internet -- Social aspects
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China https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJcrd4RjtCBk4wfMhTwwG3
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| Indexed Term |
popular science |
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wetenschap algemeen |
| Added Author |
Kuah-Pearce, Khun Eng, 1958- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Chinese women and the cyberspace. [Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, ©2008 9789053567517 9053567518 (OCoLC)225875923 |
| ISBN |
9789048501403 (electronic bk.) |
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9048501407 (electronic bk.) |
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9789053567517 |
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9053567518 |
| Standard No. |
10.5117/9789053567517 doi |
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