Abstract:
Tani Barlow's book The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism, makes a Marxist social study of analyzing the subject of women during the 20th century. Carrying the study in a new historical paradigm of “future anteriority”, Prof. Barlow refuses simply periodizing women subjects in the “backward, developing, or modern” sequence of historical progressive theory. With an overview of international feminism, Barlow chooses the most representative discourses about women from different historical phases, using the strategy of “historical catachresis” to elaborate the changes of the connotations of words “funü” and “nüxing”, in order to reveal the mechanics of intellectual production as well as the national ideological gender creation.
