Constructing the ultimate “leftover women”: Chinese media’s representation of female PhDs in the postsocialist era

Li, Xiaomeng

doi:10.1080/14680777.2021.2016884

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“…In the premodern period, Confucianism played a vital role in shaping Chinese women’s status in Feudalism. Although Confucianism contributed to social harmony and stability, its gender views limited Chinese women’s status and agency in Feudalism and still heavily influence Chinese women today ( Li, 2021 ). As Li (1997) states, “As long as it is still this nation that lives, breathes, and works on this stretch of land, it is impossible to be completely cut off from our history” (cited in Spakowski, 2011 , p. 37).…”

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“…Such popular discourses, spread by mainstream media and even television series, have become the slogans that are now being passed around, shaping individuals’ mindsets and behaviors. Stereotypical gender discourses are widely accepted by the public and mass media in order to construct a harmonious society ( Li, 2021 ).…”

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Academic women’s negotiation of gender identities in non-elite Chinese universities

Yuan

Tian

2023

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionThis study employs Butler’s concept of identity to unpack how non-elite Chinese university academic women negotiate gender identities under the influence of the wider social discourses around gender in their institutional context.MethodsThe study includes two empirical investigations of (i) semi-structured interviews and (ii) photovoice interviews with six women academics from six different non-elite Chinese universities.Results and DiscussionWe found that most interviewees tended to value their teacher identity and meanwhile downplay their researcher identity in the professional field; while in the private field, they paid more attention to their mother identity at the cost of downplaying their career development. The study also reveals that, in the process of gender negotiation, the interviewees commonly adopted two strategies: (i) creating space and time for identity performance, and (ii) persuading with selves to accept multiple identities. This article contributes to the understanding of Chinese academic women in non-elite public universities from a Butlerian perspective.

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Academic women’s negotiation of gender identities in non-elite Chinese universities

Yuan

Tian

2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…The existence of such labels, in some way, reflects the problem of gender inequality in society. In old Chinese society, traditional Confucianism held that women should play the role of gentle and virtuous mothers and wives [18]. As a result, when women began to work, society assumed that they suddenly had a will of steel.…”

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“…As a result, when women began to work, society assumed that they suddenly had a will of steel. Similarly, Chinese patriarchy saw the need for women to marry [18]. As a consequence, women who do not marry at marriageable age are seen by society as an 'outcast group', which is why the negative term 'leftover women' is used to describe them.…”

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The Impact of Communication on Female Body Image Anxiety The Case Study of # WillLiu’s Girl

Gong¹

2023

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As the influence of the media on the female body image has been of great interest to scholars, this article examines the influence of the media on the ideology of the female body image based on the national fitness boom in China driven by Will Liu. In the development of body image anxiety, scholars have previously attributed social comparison theory and psychological factors. However, research on the role of social media communication is lacking. Therefore, this study will be based on the influence of mass communication #WillLiu’s Girls labels on body image ideology. As a result, it is evident that Chinese women place a much more emphasis on fitness, weight loss and slimming results than men. The media and corporate promotions cause Chinese women to get lost in the weight loss vortex. This study believes that the inequality between men and women in society itself has contributed to an increased anxiety about female body image, and that the media has exacerbated to this process.

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“…In the late 1970s, the PRC embarked on economic reformation policies, concentrating on industrial marketization, which bear similarities to the neoliberal approaches implemented in the UK during the 1980s (Harvey, 2007). Neoliberalism, intimately associated with a postsocialist China integrating into the global market (Li, 2021), fosters individualism by supplying a plethora of consumer goods and advocating individualistic lifestyles (Giddens, 1991). This approach cultivates self-reflexivity and values personal choice (Rofel, 2007), leading to the emergence of neoliberal feminism (McRobbie, 2013; Rottenberg, 2018).…”

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When feminists became ‘extremists’: A corpus-based study of representations of feminism on Weibo

Bao

2023

Discourse & Communication

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This article presents an analysis of the evolving representations of feminism on Weibo, China’s foremost microblogging platform, employing a corpus-based methodology. The self-compiled corpus comprised 334,871 feminism-related posts from 2019 to 2022. Using the Sketch Engine corpus analysis tool, noun bigrams containing 女权 ( feminism) were extracted, categorized, and compared to discern the portrayals and their transformations. The findings revealed a significant shift in feminism’s depiction, with an increased emphasis on its radical and aggressive aspects, and a decline in its portrayal as a quest for female privilege. During this period, the perception of feminism as an emerging social movement expanded, and the distinction between various forms of feminism and feminists based on different attributes became more prevalent, resulting in a marginally reduced representation of them as a unified entity. This research enriches the existing literature by emphasizing the dynamic portrayals of feminism on China’s social media and offering novel insights into its assessment.

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Constructing the ultimate “leftover women”: Chinese media’s representation of female PhDs in the postsocialist era

Cited by 14 publications

References 11 publications

Academic women’s negotiation of gender identities in non-elite Chinese universities

Academic women’s negotiation of gender identities in non-elite Chinese universities

The Impact of Communication on Female Body Image Anxiety The Case Study of # WillLiu’s Girl

When feminists became ‘extremists’: A corpus-based study of representations of feminism on Weibo

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