Being Single in the City
What does it mean to be a single woman in India or China? Being single is an advancing trend, also in Asia. There is an ambivalent fascination with the single woman as a new type of empowered, pleasure-seeking, competent lifestyle-surfer, and dedicated career-maker. And yet, the single woman is also...
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| description | What does it mean to be a single woman in India or China? Being single is an advancing trend, also in Asia. There is an ambivalent fascination with the single woman as a new type of empowered, pleasure-seeking, competent lifestyle-surfer, and dedicated career-maker. And yet, the single woman is also stigmatized and isolated, discriminated against or stereotyped as someone who challenges social norms. Place matters for singlehood. This book focuses on the urban fabric of India, mainland China, and Hong Kong. For it is here that social, economic, cultural, and political transformations become manifest and new possibilities of living are tested and vividly contested. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1468212025-07-21T15:44:55Z Being Single in the City Brosius, Christiane Gender Asia Single Transcultural City thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFA Social discrimination and social justice thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FP East Asia, Far East::1FPC China thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFA Social discrimination and social justice thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FP East Asia, Far East::1FPC China thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls What does it mean to be a single woman in India or China? Being single is an advancing trend, also in Asia. There is an ambivalent fascination with the single woman as a new type of empowered, pleasure-seeking, competent lifestyle-surfer, and dedicated career-maker. And yet, the single woman is also stigmatized and isolated, discriminated against or stereotyped as someone who challenges social norms. Place matters for singlehood. This book focuses on the urban fabric of India, mainland China, and Hong Kong. For it is here that social, economic, cultural, and political transformations become manifest and new possibilities of living are tested and vividly contested. Was bedeutet es, eine alleinstehende Frau in Indien oder China zu sein? Singles sind auf dem Vormarsch, auch in Asien. Es gibt eine ambivalente Faszination für die alleinstehende Frau als neuen Typus der selbstbewussten, kompetenten „Lifestyle-Surferin“ und engagierten Karrieremacherin. Und doch wird die alleinstehende Frau auch stigmatisiert, diskriminiert oder als jemand stereotypisiert, der soziale Normen herausfordert. Orte sind wichtig für das Singledasein: dieses Buch konzentriert sich insbesondere auf urbane Räume Indiens, des chinesischen Festlandes und Hongkongs. Schließlich manifestieren sich hier soziale, wirtschaftliche, kulturelle und politische Transformationen, werden neue Lebensmöglichkeiten erprobt und lebhaft diskutiert. 2024-10-26T04:06:15Z 2024-10-26T04:06:15Z 2024-10-25T13:35:11Z 2024 book ONIX_20241025_9783968222776_7 2365-7995 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93992 9783968222776 9783968222783 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/146821 eng Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/93992/1/9783968222776.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/93992/1/9783968222776.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/93992/1/9783968222776.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/93992/1/9783968222776.pdf Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP) heiUP 10.17885/heiup.1425 10.17885/heiup.1425 83eb0236-463a-4213-8a0f-dc16011f70aa 9783968222776 9783968222783 AG Universitätsverlage heiUP 259 Heidelberg open access |
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| topic | Gender Asia Single Transcultural City thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFA Social discrimination and social justice thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FP East Asia, Far East::1FPC China thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFA Social discrimination and social justice thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FP East Asia, Far East::1FPC China thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls |
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