‘I spend lots of time on my appearance’: unpacking Chinese academic women’s gendered subjectivities through the lens of bodily performance

Yuan, Boya; Tian, Xiaoming

doi:10.1080/09589236.2023.2207002

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“…Ten participants (see Table 1) were recruited through a combination of snowballing and purposive sampling techniques (Patton, 2002). Despite comprising the majority of female academics in China and, as such, representing the typical experience of Chinese academic women, those in non‐elite universities remain an invisible and overlooked group within the research domain (Yuan & Tian, 2023b). Hence, the research participants were from ten non‐elite public universities across China and purposely selected from Humanities and Social Science (HSS) fields.…”

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Exploring the desires to become academics: Reflections of academic women in Chinese non‐elite public universities

Yuan,

Tang

2024

Euro J of Education

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This study explores the dynamic journey of women as they become academics in non‐elite Chinese public universities. It focuses on their aspirations and the evolving subjectivity that accompanies this process. Ten participants from the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) fields, aged 28–57, were interviewed; the transcripts were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. Adopting a Butlerian perspective, our findings identify two distinct subjectivities that shape Chinese women's decision to become academics: autonomous subjectivity driven by intrinsic desire and strategic subjectivity driven by instrumental desire. We argue that becoming an academic is a complex process influenced by regulatory power, including market forces, institutional and societal constraints, and gender norms, which shape the context in which the desire is pursued. It is essential to view this decision not only from the individual's perspective but also from the larger context within which it is made. This study contributes to the literature on gender equality in academia by interrogating the complexities of the decision‐making processes for Chinese women pursuing academic careers in non‐elite Chinese universities.

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Exploring the desires to become academics: Reflections of academic women in Chinese non‐elite public universities

Yuan,

Tang

2024

Euro J of Education

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Gender drag and parody: Performances of professionalism by two young Chinese women academics

Bao

2024

International Journal of Educational Research

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Negotiating beauty: exploring beauty narratives of Chinese women in different life stages

2024

Journal of Gender Studies

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‘I spend lots of time on my appearance’: unpacking Chinese academic women’s gendered subjectivities through the lens of bodily performance

Cited by 4 publications

References 38 publications

Exploring the desires to become academics: Reflections of academic women in Chinese non‐elite public universities

Exploring the desires to become academics: Reflections of academic women in Chinese non‐elite public universities

Gender drag and parody: Performances of professionalism by two young Chinese women academics

Negotiating beauty: exploring beauty narratives of Chinese women in different life stages

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