Two recent articles on Chinese women

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Two recent articles in
Gender Issues 22. 1 (2005): 57-88
The Journal of Georgia Association of Historians, XXIV (2003): 80-105
Please check the journals for full texts
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Article (1):
"Women Journalists in the Chinese Enlightenment" Gender Issues 22, 1
(2005): 57-88.

By Yuxin Ma (Armstrong Atlantic State University)
Abstract (1):
May Fourth women journalists appropriated the discourse of women's
emancipation advocated by New Culturalists to shape their discussions of
women's suffrage, labor movement and legal rights. The rhetoric of
emancipation enabled women writers to redefine gender norms and
legitimized women's presence in coeducational schools, modern professions,
and public spaces. The interplay between discourse and practices
associated with new women enabled women activists to embrace the subject
positions opened by the ideal of the "new woman" and to appropriate the
rhetoric of human rights to advocate the sharing of male power and
privilege, while seriously exploring how to be women in the political and
social landscape of an emerging modern China.

Article (2):
"Constructing Manchukuo Womanhood to Serve the Japanese Empire" The
Journal of Georgia Association of Historians (Vol. XXIV, 2003): 80-105.
By Yuxin Ma (Armstrong Atlantic State University)
Abstract (2):
Reflective in Japanese gender policy in Manchukuo and North China such as
promoting "good wives and wise mothers" for Chinese women in Manchukuo
schools, mobilizing Chinese women to participate in the Movement of
Reinforcing Security in rural areas in North China, and staging Man’ei
actresses in Japan as examples of Pan-Asian femininity clearly demonstrate
the importance assigned to constructing a new imperial womanhood in the
Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere. The goal was to depoliticize and
domesticate Chinese women, coach them to participate in Japanese
imperialist projects, sever their cultural ties with the rest of China,
and cultivate their love and loyalty to Japan. The ambivalence
communicated by the Man’ei actresses reveals that the Japanese ideological
invasion of the Asian mainland inspired collaboration and resistance
alike.