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Layered Motherhood for Chinese Mother Bloggers. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, June 2009, Pages: 204
This project approaches motherhood as layered,
conditioned, and multivalent against the background
of the one-child policy in China. Through close
readings of blogs maintained and posted by Chinese
mother bloggers at www.sina.com.cn, I foreground the
complexities of their subjectivities. Drawing mainly
from different schools of feminist thinkers and
Michel Foucault, subjectivities are understood as
fluid, constituted, and becoming. Therefore, this
book highlights the interconnectivity
between Chinese nation, the discourse of population
in China, Chinese women and their children, and the
nexus of power and knowledge in the age of biopower.
Chinese women’s bodies are disciplined because of
the discursive links between nation, population and
Chinese women. However, the poor, victimized object
is not the only identity Chinese women have. They
have initiated an active self-formation to normalize
the one-child policy and to disrupt the prescribed
gender roles.
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