Gendered Globality as a Cold War Framework
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12423682 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tina Mai Chen (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 603-630 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | positions asia critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1067-9847 • E-ISSN: 1527-8271 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10679847-8315153 |
| OpenAlex | W3042282816 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
Originally penned by Mao Zedong in 1961 as an inscription on a photograph of female militia, “Bu ai hongzhuang, ai wuzhuang” 不爱红妆爱武 装 (“They love their battle array, not silks and satins”) for many sums up a presumed erasure of femininity in favor of a universalized masculine subject position within socialist China. This article reconsiders the discursive work done by militarized female bodies—physically and representationally—focusing on alternative international and internationalist futures following the Sino-Soviet split of 1960. The article critically engages state-to-state relations and internationally circulating PRC-produced cultural material that articulated feminist ideals as part of Afro-Asian-Latin American solidarity. This article returns to well-known texts of Maoist China to rethink state-produced Chinese feminism as a Cold War framework and gendered globality. It shifts the analytic from Cold War dichotomies that legitimate what most scholars misrepresent as an insular Chinese socialist female subjectivity of the 1960s to focus on the complex global dimensions of Cold War socialist feminism
China · Cold war · Dichotomy · Epistemology · Femininity · Feminism · Globality · Globalization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Subjectivity · Chinese history and philosophy · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Gender Studies · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy
Lineages of the Absolutist State
Peasant and Woman in Maoist Revolutionary Theory, 1920s–1950s
Everyday Life in the Modern World
Maoist Model Theatre
Socialist Cosmopolitanism
Witness Against History
Radicals on the Road
The Study of Cold War International History in China
The Politics of Cold War Culture
Cold War Sport, Film, and Propaganda
Dressing for the Party
Meanings of China's Cultural Revolution
Female Icons, Feminist Iconography? Socialist Rhetoric and Women's Agency in 1950s China
The global cold war
Communist China and Latin America, 1949-1972
International film circuits and global imaginaries in the People's Republic of China, 1949–57
Everyday life in the modern world
Chinese History and the Question of Orientalism
Black like Mao
From Peace to the Panthers
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |