Julia Kristeva is a writer, psychoanalyst and professor emeritus at the University of Paris Diderot-Paris and an internationally renowned author of some 30 works of non-fiction as well as fiction. A Commander of the Legion of Honor Kristeva is herself the recipient of numerous awards, including the Hannah Arendt prize as well as being the founder of the Prize Simone de Beauvoir for the freedom of the women.
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Kristeva, J. (1986). About Chinese Women. Equinox Publishing. https://doi.org/
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Published: 1986
Pages: 206
Paperback: 9780714525228
In About Chinese Women Julia Kristeva combines a study of Chinese history, literature, religion and politics with her own penetrating insights. Kristeva analyzes aspects of a country in which the role of women has evolved and been transformed with startling consequences. Surveying first the place of women in the social order of the capitalist West, she moves on to examine the family in ancient China, and provides a fascinating account of the Chinese feminist movement of the early 20th century. She explores the idea that, because of its Confucian antecedents, the Chinese revolution had to take on an anti-patriarchal character – and was therefore more fundamentally ‘a women’s revolution’ than others elsewhere, before or since