More Than Half the Sky? Chinese Women in History, Society and Culture

[in Finnish]

Tiina Airaksinen, Elina Sinkkonen and Minna Valjakka eds.

Iron girls and model workers, women of Falun Gong, Shanghai daughters, Tibetan nuns, female taikonauts, revolutionaries of imperial period and one-child mothers of People’s Republic of China – how does the world look like in the Chinese women’s eyes?

This book analyses Chinese female activities and agency concentrating on their change in the Chinese socio-political and cultural context. It is important to recognize that female agency is dependent on women’s societal status: what kind of roles are accepted for women, what kind of moral principles apply on women and how women themselves question and modify these societal ramifications. In China, the influence of factors such as traditional Chinese ideologies, views of the Communist Party, Western role models and women’s own personal views and intentions, make the question of changes in contemporary Chinese female agency intriguing.

Publisher: Art House, publishing date 7.3.2016.

For more information: Tiina Airaksinen (tiina.h.airaksinen(at)helsinki.fi), Elina Sinkkonen (elina.sinkkonen(at)fiia.fi) and Minna Valjakka (minna.valjakka(at)helsinki.fi)

Book Launch in Helsinki