Susan Mann
Biographic Data
| ID | 3709750 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Mann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Mann |
| SIGNATURE | MANN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Orleans |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 426 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese History
Gender and sexuality have been neglected topics in the history of Chinese civilization, despite the fact that there is a massive amount of historical evidence on the subject. China's late imperial government was arguably more concerned about gender and sexuality among its subjects than any other pre-modern state. How did these and other late imperial legacies shape twentieth-century notions of gender and sexuality in modern China? Susan Mann answ…
Speaking Through Silences
Scene‐Setting: Writing Biography in Chinese History
FIELD, writing biography is a "natural."Life stories dominated imperial China's major historical works.The Chinese imperial elite was obsessed with remembering and recording lives: male and female, elite and commoner.These life stories were supposed to convey history's great moral lessons.The historian's job was to make sure the lessons were crystal-clear, and so most biographies were recorded in dramatic scenes, sparked with verbatim dialogue.It…
Dowry Wealth and Wifely Virtue in Mid-Qing Gentry Households
Feminism and Imperialism, 1890-1920: Our Anti-Imperialist Sisters-Missing in Action from American Feminist Sociology
This article retrieves part of our historical past to address two omissions in American feminist sociology on the subject of global imperialism. The first section addresses the inadequate attention feminist sociologists have paid to how major leaders of the women's movement responded to U.S. overseas expansion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It documents how these early feminists had both progressive and reactionary response…
Talented Women of the Zhang Family
The history of China in the nineteenth century usually features men as the dominant figures in a chronicle of warfare, rebellion, and dynastic decline. This book challenges that model and provides a different account of the era, history as seen through the eyes of women. Basing her remarkable study on the poetry and memoirs of three generations of literary women of the Zhang family—Tang Yaoqing, her eldest daughter, and her eldest granddaughter—S…
Bates, Christina, Dianne Dodd et Nicole Rousseau, dir., Sans frontières: Quatre siècles de soins infirmiers canadiens (Ottawa, Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa/Musée canadien des civilisations, 2005),…
Bates, Christina, Dianne Dodd et Nicole Rousseau, dir., Sans frontières : quatre siècles de soins infirmiers canadiens (Ottawa, Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa/Musée canadien des civilisations, 2005), 248 p. Publié également en anglais : On All Frontiers : Four Centuries of Canadian Nursing.. Un article de la revue Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française (Volume 59, numéro 3, hiver 2006, p. 223-404) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
The Decentering of Second Wave Feminism and the Rise of the Third Wave
Third wave feminism is a new discourse for understanding and framing gender relations that arose out of a critique of the second wave. Four major perspectives that share a common focus on difference, deconstruction and decentering contributed to this new discourse: intersectionality theory; postmodernism/ poststructuralism; feminist postcolonial theory; and the agenda of young feminists. A Marxist–feminist perspective grounds this new perspective…
Chopsticks Only Work in Pairs: Gender Unity and Gender Equality among the Lahu of Southwest China
Shanshan Du, New York: Columbia University Press, 2002, xvii + 237 pages (paper).Susan Mann and Yu-Yin Cheng (eds.), Under Confucian Eyes: Writings on Gender in Chinese History, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001, xiii + 310 pages (paper).Reviewer: Lorne Holyoak University of SaskatchewanThe tendency to gloss Han culture as Chinese culture and furthermore to essentialize Han culture as identical throughout time and spa…
Dream of Nation
Essential reading for an understanding of contemporary Quebec, The Dream of Nation traces the changing nature of various "dreams of nation," from the imperial dream of New France to the separatist dream of the 1980 referendum. Susan Mann demonstrates that these dreams, fashioned by elites in response to the recurring question of how to be French in North America, proposed an ever-elusive unanimity. She discusses how social, economic, and politica…
Grooming a Daughter for Marriage: Brides and Wives in the Mid-Qing Period
This chapter discusses concepts of marriage, brides, and wives in the Mid-Qing period. Marriage was the ladder of success for women in late imperial China. But a lavish dowry often became a burden: it testified the bride's family status, and it was likely to complement generous betrothal gifts, one gauge of the groom's ability to provide for a daughter's long-term security. However, that produced an unusual series of conversations about wives and…
The Cambridge History of China
This volume of the Cambridge History of China considers the political, military, social, and economic developments of the Ch'ing empire to 1800. The period begins with the end of the resurgent Ming dynasty, covered in volumes 7 and 8, and ends with the beginning of the collapse of the imperial system in the nineteenth century, described in volume 10. Taken together, the ten chapters elucidate the complexities of the dynamic interactions between e…
Public Representations at Development Control Planning Committees
This article reviews the findings of a survey undertaken by the authors in 1999 of all local planning authorities in England and Wales to establish current practices and procedures regarding public speaking rights at development control planning committees. The survey found that the number of planning authorities allowing public speaking appeared to have doubled in the last few years. At the same time, over one third of all planning authorities s…
Pan Chao: Foremost Woman Scholar of China
"First published in 1932, this book is perhaps the earliest work by an American scholar on a Chinese woman intellectual. Nancy Lee Swann presents a sketch of the Eastern Han period when Pan lived and wrote, of her family background, and of the literary milieu of which she was a part. In addition, Swann provides translations of writings definitively identified with Pan that survive from the years when she was active (ca. 89-105 a.d.)."--BOOK JACKE…
Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century
Under Confucian Eyes: Writings on Gender in Chinese History
These translations of eighteen classical Chinese texts from the mid-ninth century (Tang dynasty) through the late nineteenth century (Qing dynasty) offer a comprehensive collection of primary sources focusing on gender issues in medieval and late imperial China. The book's title reflects the sometimes ironic relationship between Confucian viewpoints and women's visibility in Chinese historical documents. The texts, written by both men and women, …
Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China (review)
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History - Volume 2, Number 3, Winter 2001
Notable Women of China: Shang Dynasty to the Early Twentieth Century
The Male Bond in Chinese History and Culture
Journal Article The Male Bond in Chinese History and Culture Get access Susan Mann Susan Mann professor of history University of California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 105, Issue 5, December 2000, Pages 1600–1614, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/105.5.1600 Published: 01 December 2000
The Male Bond in Chinese History and Culture
Presidential Address: Myths of Asian Womanhood
Salman rushdie calls mythology "the family album or storehouse of a culture's childhood, containing [its] ... future, codified as tales that are both poems and oracles" (1999, 83). Myths are, in his words, "the waking dreams our societies permit" that celebrate "the non-belongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks" (73). Of course, all societies have such waking dreams, but women as mythic figures loom rather larger in some cultures tha…
Guide to Women's Studies in China
The Scholarship of Difference: A Scholarship of Liberation
Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of new scholarship depicting the diverse experiences of men and women from different classes, races, and ethnicities. This article examines the implications of this new scholarship by comparing and contrasting its core assumptions with those of both Marxism and postmodernism. Particular attention is paid to its potential as a scholarship of liberation.Within this new scholarship of difference, two types …
Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century
Gardening as "Women's Culture" in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's Short Fiction
CIENTIFIC names of flowers are a painful necessity; 3 common names represent their relation to humanity, Candace Wheeler asserted in her gardening book (1902) commemorating the last century.' That women are compared to flowers in any age is not unusual, but in the nineteenth century, those associations multiplied. They were propagated by books such as Flora's Lexicon (1840), which had two indexes of over 200 items each-one of the familiar names o…
Obstacles to the development of a capitalist agriculture
This paper examines some of the reasons for the maintenance and persistence of family labour farms within agricultural sectors of advanced capitalist countries: some obstacles to the development of a capitalist agriculture are highlighted. The survival of family farms has called into question Marx's theory of the transitional nature of petty commodity production; hence, Marxism is generally regarded as being unable to account for the viability of…
The Decentering of Second Wave Feminism and the Rise of the Third Wave
Third wave feminism is a new discourse for understanding and framing gender relations that arose out of a critique of the second wave. Four major perspectives that share a common focus on difference, deconstruction and decentering contributed to this new discourse: intersectionality theory; postmodernism/ poststructuralism; feminist postcolonial theory; and the agenda of young feminists. A Marxist–feminist perspective grounds this new perspective…
The rise of wage labour in the cotton south: A global analysis
Much of the existing literature on the replacement of sharecropping by wage labour in the cotton South during the post-Depression era tends to focus on developments internal to the United States and to the South as a region. As such, it fails to provide a more global analysis which takes into account the fact that Southern cotton production was integrally tied to a world economy. This article addresses these shortcomings by examining how changes …
Widows in the Kinship, Class, and Community Structures of Qing Dynasty China
In 1934 Liu Jihua, a classically trained feminist at Yanjing University, published an article on the history of the concept of chastity in China. Meticulously documented and lavishly illustrated with quotations from the classics (beginning with theBook of Changes), her long essay argued that, by the Qing dynasty, female chastity had "become a religion" (zongjiaohua): a prescriptive norm accepted as a matter of faith by most men and women
Standing at the Crossroads of Modernist Thought: Collins, Smith, and the New Feminist Epistemologies
Recent debates between modernists and postmodernists have shaken the foundations of modern social science. The epistemological assumptions of long-established procedures for constructing and validating knowledge claims have been called into question. This article discusses how two major contributors to the 'new feminist epistemologies'-Dorothy Smith and Patricia Hill Collins-selectively integrate premises of modernist and postmodernist thought in…
Paradigm Shifts in Family Sociology? Evidence From Three Decades of Family Textbooks
This article explores paradigm shifts in family sociology from the 1960s to the 1990s using a thematic content analysis of 7 multiple-edition texts. Two competing views on theoretical developments are examined. David Cheal claims that challenges posed to structural functionalist hegemony resulted in theoretical pluralism and an end to this hegemony. Dorothy Smith argues that Parson's theoretical assumptions are so deeply embedded in the discourse…
The Survival and Revival of Nonwage Labour in a Global Economy
Slavery, Sharecropping, and Sexual Inequality
Focuses on black women's experiences in the transition from slavery to sharecropping in the South after the Civil War. Although the public and private domains of work became more differentiated, and a sexual division of labor in the home became more marked, the position of freedwomen nevertheless improved
Urbanization and Historical Change in China
Historians used to believe that the Chinese imperial state was powerful enough to extend direct control over the lives of all its people, taxing them unmercifully and bending them by force to its will. We now know that in fact the Qing bureaucracy that ruled China from 1644 until 191 1 was a relatively weak extractive and coercive organization, at least during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.' This discovery has encouraged scholars to turn…
Re-thinking the Analysis of Intergenerational Social Mobility: A Comment on John W. Fox's 'Social Class, Mental Ilness, and Social Mobility
The method of analyzing social mobility described by Fox (1990) is flawed in its adjustment for between-group differences in destination status when estimating the extent of the mentally ill's mobility as compared with the general population. Use of the recommended model with hypothetical data sets resulted in a significant finding when no overall upward or downward mobility occurred, and a non-significant result when the downward mobility of a p…
Adoptive Parents a Practice Perspective
The advent of changing adoption legislation, policy and practice is impacting on all people touched by the adoption experience. Open adoption is now considered to be best practice. In South Australia adoption legislation was changed in 1988. All adoption records were made available retrospectively to adopted people and birth parents unless a five-year veto was placed by either the birth parent or adopted person requesting no contact with the ‘see…
Modernization and the Family: A Theoretical Analysis
Modernization theory argues that familism entails a traditional or parochial orientation that inhibits economic progress. Informed by critiques of this approach by dependency and world-system theorists and drawing on a case study of Italian immigrants to Louisiana at the turn of the twentieth century, this study argues that familism can be a progressive force which facilitates economic accumulation and upward mobility under certain social conditi…
Brokers as Entrepreneurs in Presocialist China
Brokers or middlemen have been called a key element in preindustrial economic development, facilitating the exchange of goods within the domestic economy and opening rural production systems to foreign markets. Though Chinese society historically boasted a vigorous brokerage system, many studies of Chinese brokers have viewed them as obstacles to the development of entrepreneurship and capitalist transformation. China's brokers were limited, it i…
Scene‐Setting: Writing Biography in Chinese History
FIELD, writing biography is a "natural."Life stories dominated imperial China's major historical works.The Chinese imperial elite was obsessed with remembering and recording lives: male and female, elite and commoner.These life stories were supposed to convey history's great moral lessons.The historian's job was to make sure the lessons were crystal-clear, and so most biographies were recorded in dramatic scenes, sparked with verbatim dialogue.It…
Feminism and Imperialism, 1890-1920: Our Anti-Imperialist Sisters-Missing in Action from American Feminist Sociology
This article retrieves part of our historical past to address two omissions in American feminist sociology on the subject of global imperialism. The first section addresses the inadequate attention feminist sociologists have paid to how major leaders of the women's movement responded to U.S. overseas expansion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It documents how these early feminists had both progressive and reactionary response…
Bates, Christina, Dianne Dodd et Nicole Rousseau, dir., Sans frontières: Quatre siècles de soins infirmiers canadiens (Ottawa, Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa/Musée canadien des civilisations, 2005),…
Bates, Christina, Dianne Dodd et Nicole Rousseau, dir., Sans frontières : quatre siècles de soins infirmiers canadiens (Ottawa, Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa/Musée canadien des civilisations, 2005), 248 p. Publié également en anglais : On All Frontiers : Four Centuries of Canadian Nursing.. Un article de la revue Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française (Volume 59, numéro 3, hiver 2006, p. 223-404) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
The Scholarship of Difference: A Scholarship of Liberation
Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of new scholarship depicting the diverse experiences of men and women from different classes, races, and ethnicities. This article examines the implications of this new scholarship by comparing and contrasting its core assumptions with those of both Marxism and postmodernism. Particular attention is paid to its potential as a scholarship of liberation.Within this new scholarship of difference, two types …
The Universe and the Library: A Critique of James Boyd White as Writer and Reader
New Perspectives on Chinese Urbanization: The Last Two Hundred Years
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Obstacles to the development of a capitalist agriculture
This paper examines some of the reasons for the maintenance and persistence of family labour farms within agricultural sectors of advanced capitalist countries: some obstacles to the development of a capitalist agriculture are highlighted. The survival of family farms has called into question Marx's theory of the transitional nature of petty commodity production; hence, Marxism is generally regarded as being unable to account for the viability of…
Urbanization and Historical Change in China
Historians used to believe that the Chinese imperial state was powerful enough to extend direct control over the lives of all its people, taxing them unmercifully and bending them by force to its will. We now know that in fact the Qing bureaucracy that ruled China from 1644 until 191 1 was a relatively weak extractive and coercive organization, at least during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.' This discovery has encouraged scholars to turn…
Brokers as Entrepreneurs in Presocialist China
Brokers or middlemen have been called a key element in preindustrial economic development, facilitating the exchange of goods within the domestic economy and opening rural production systems to foreign markets. Though Chinese society historically boasted a vigorous brokerage system, many studies of Chinese brokers have viewed them as obstacles to the development of entrepreneurship and capitalist transformation. China's brokers were limited, it i…
New Perspectives on Chinese Urbanization: The Last Two Hundred Years
Monopoly in the Marketplace: The Ideological Denial of Visas
The McCarran‐Walter Act mandates the exclusion of nonimmigrant aliens from entry into the United States. Hundred of detentions and exclusions occur yearly under the Act, and Latin Americans appear to be disproportionately likely to be excluded. This article argues that the Act, a Cold War statute, ignores current political reality and American self‐interest. The exclusionary subsections provide no more protection from terrorists and other genuine…
Widows in the Kinship, Class, and Community Structures of Qing Dynasty China
In 1934 Liu Jihua, a classically trained feminist at Yanjing University, published an article on the history of the concept of chastity in China. Meticulously documented and lavishly illustrated with quotations from the classics (beginning with theBook of Changes), her long essay argued that, by the Qing dynasty, female chastity had "become a religion" (zongjiaohua): a prescriptive norm accepted as a matter of faith by most men and women
Farm Women: Work, Farm, and Family in the United States.Rachel Ann Rosenfeld
The rise of wage labour in the cotton south: A global analysis
Much of the existing literature on the replacement of sharecropping by wage labour in the cotton South during the post-Depression era tends to focus on developments internal to the United States and to the South as a region. As such, it fails to provide a more global analysis which takes into account the fact that Southern cotton production was integrally tied to a world economy. This article addresses these shortcomings by examining how changes …
Local Merchants and the Chinese Bureaucracy, 1750-1950
Local Merchants and The Chinese Bureaucracy, 1750-1950
Local Merchants and the Chinese Bureaucracy, 1750-1950
The Universe and the Library: A Critique of James Boyd White as Writer and Reader
Local Merchants and the Chinese Bureaucracy, 1750-1950
Modernization and the Family: A Theoretical Analysis
Modernization theory argues that familism entails a traditional or parochial orientation that inhibits economic progress. Informed by critiques of this approach by dependency and world-system theorists and drawing on a case study of Italian immigrants to Louisiana at the turn of the twentieth century, this study argues that familism can be a progressive force which facilitates economic accumulation and upward mobility under certain social conditi…
Slavery, Sharecropping, and Sexual Inequality
Focuses on black women's experiences in the transition from slavery to sharecropping in the South after the Civil War. Although the public and private domains of work became more differentiated, and a sexual division of labor in the home became more marked, the position of freedwomen nevertheless improved
Grooming a Daughter for Marriage: Brides and Wives in the Mid-Ch'ing Period
Debates in the Sociology of Agriculture
Agrarian Capitalism in Theory and Practice
Journal Article Agrarian Capitalism in Theory and Practice. By Susan Archer Mann. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. xvi + 211 pp. $29.95.) Get access Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Penn State University, University Park Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Page 283, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078110 Published: 01 June…
Agrarian Capitalism in Theory and Practice
"Fuxue" (Women's Learning) by Zhang Xuecheng (1738-1801): China's First History of Women's Culture
Male Anxiety and Female Chastity: A Comparative Study of Chinese Ethical Values in Ming-Ch'ing Times
Agrarian Capitalism in Theory and Practice
The Survival and Revival of Nonwage Labour in a Global Economy
Re-thinking the Analysis of Intergenerational Social Mobility: A Comment on John W. Fox's 'Social Class, Mental Ilness, and Social Mobility
The method of analyzing social mobility described by Fox (1990) is flawed in its adjustment for between-group differences in destination status when estimating the extent of the mentally ill's mobility as compared with the general population. Use of the recommended model with hypothetical data sets resulted in a significant finding when no overall upward or downward mobility occurred, and a non-significant result when the downward mobility of a p…
Political science (40 works) · Sociology (33 works) · Law (31 works) · History (29 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (28 works) · Politics (19 works) · China (17 works) · Archaeology (16 works) · Economics (13 works) · Gender Studies (13 works)