Pub Date : 2002-06-01DOI: 10.1215/10407391-13-2-90
S. Shih
In the spring of 1988, I found myself sitting next to Zhang Jie, perhaps the most prominent woman writer in China at the time, at a reception in Beijing for American writers hosted by the Chinese Ministry of Culture. As the interpreter/translator for the American delegation, I had acquired the derivative power of proximity to prominent American and Chinese writers to enjoy a sumptuous banquet and to serve as the intermediary of conversation and cultural exchange. One of the questions that was frequently raised by the American delegation, especially by women writers during that reception and later during meetings in Beijing, Chengdu, and Shanghai, was whether Chinese women writers were keen on expressing feminist intent and exposing female oppression. Upon hearing the question thus posed and translated in my Taiwanese-inflected terminology, Zhang Jie appeared to be ill at ease. Despite the fact that she was then the most acclaimed writer of female sensibility, she replied after a short pause that there was no such thing as “feminism” (nuxing zhuyi or nuquanzbuyi) in China and that she would not call herself a “feminist” or a “feminist writer.” This was my first trip to China as a Korean-born, Taiwan- and U.S.-educated ethnic Chinese residing in California, and, out of sheer ignorance, I understood her categorical rejection to be the expression of her care to avoid making any anti-official statements at a state-sponsored event.
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Pub Date : 2002-02-01DOI: 10.1215/10407391-13-1-77
S. Gal
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{"title":"The Right to Be Lonely","authors":"D. Riley","doi":"10.1215/10407391-13-1-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-13-1-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46313,"journal":{"name":"Differences-A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies","volume":"2 1","pages":"1 - 13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2002-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72714034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2002-02-01DOI: 10.1215/10407391-13-1-128
E. Rooney
Joan Scott titled the 2000 conference where the papers collected in this issue of differences were initially presented together “Feminism and the Shifting Boundaries of Public and Private.” The work of the participants repeatedly stressed the uneven, wavering, mutable quality of those boundaries, the phantasmatic nature of our obsessive reinvestments in their regularity and regeneration, and the uncanny power that the binary public/private has to make things of interest simply disappear, as Judith Butler observed. The semiprivate room is one such lost site: though it insistently emerges in multiple forms, it repeatedly slips out of view as the powerful opposition of private to public is reinscribed. The semiprivate figures neither an inside, nor an outside, but the conscious practice of drawing boundaries in a field neither the private nor the public can anticipate or guarantee.1
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Pub Date : 2002-02-01DOI: 10.1215/10407391-13-1-45
Rosalind C. Morris
{"title":"Failures of Domestication: Speculations on Globality, Economy, and the Sex of Excess in Thailand","authors":"Rosalind C. Morris","doi":"10.1215/10407391-13-1-45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/10407391-13-1-45","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46313,"journal":{"name":"Differences-A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"45 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2002-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86460937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2002-02-01DOI: 10.1215/10407391-13-1-96
Miglena Nikolchina
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Pub Date : 2001-10-01DOI: 10.1215/10407391-12-3-128
Matthew Rowlinson
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