Going public through writing

Women journalists and gendered journalistic space in China, 1890s—1920s

Bibliographic Data

ID11268012
AuthorsYong Volz (University of Missouri, corresponding author), Yong Z Volz (School of Journalism at the University of Missouri at Columbia)
Year2007
Volume29
Issue3
Pages469-489
Publication date2007-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedia Culture & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0163-4437 • E-ISSN: 1460-3675
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0163443707076186
OpenAlexW2035683868
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited15

This article examines the historical emergence of a women's public sphere in early 20th-century China, a time when modernization was at the top of the national agenda, by looking at how some women — who belonged to the scholar-gentry class and had experience of the West — became journalists. These women carved out a distinctively women's public sphere by establishing a press that was both for women and by women. While Chinese male intellectuals envisioned women's press merely as instrument for enlightening and educating women, women journalists promoted women's journalism as a public forum, particularly for women to participate in discussions of modernization. Struggling against the fact that women in China were traditionally perceived as a subordinate and incapable group, these women journalists had to utilize their elite background to claim credit for their writings and secure their place in the public discursive field

China · Elite · Gentry · Journalism · Media studies · Modernization theory · Political science · Politics · Public sphere · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Japanese History and Culture · Law

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