Chinese Women and the Cyberspace

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2008

Chinese Women and the Cyberspace

Edited by: Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce

Volume 2 in the series ICAS Publications

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048501403

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About this book

This edited book examines how Chinese women negotiate the Internet to empower themselves and the tensions and conflicts that arise out of this use.

Author / Editor information

Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce is associate professor in and chair of the Department of Sociology, as well as honorary academic director of the Center for Anthropological Research at the University of Hong Kong.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table Of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	7
List Of Tables Open Access Download PDF	9
1. Introduction Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng Open Access Download PDF	11
Part I. Work, Leisure, Politics And Identity
2. Internet As Social Capital And Social Network Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng Open Access Download PDF	25
3. Agency And Ict Among Singaporean-Chinese Women Johnson Helen Open Access Download PDF	47
4. Can The Internet Help? How Immigrant Women From China Get Jobs Salaff Janet and Greve Arent Open Access Download PDF	65
5. Cyberactivism In The Women’S Movement Liu Ting Open Access Download PDF	95
6. Cyber Self-Centres? Ho Petula Sik-ying, Tang Wesley Siu-hang and Ho Kiu-chor Open Access Download PDF	117
7. Embeddedness And Virtual Community Gao Chong Open Access Download PDF	135
8. Electronic Park Benches Caplan Victoria Open Access Download PDF	155
Part II. Love, Sex And Marriage
9. Sapphic Shadows Sim Amy Open Access Download PDF	181
10. Sex & Life Politics Formed Through The Internet Ho Sik Ying and Pei Yuxin Open Access Download PDF	203
11. On Sale In Express Package Maggi W.H. Leung Open Access Download PDF	223
12. Boundary-Crossing Through Cyberspace Liu Hong and Liu Lihui Open Access Download PDF	249
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	271
Index Open Access Download PDF	273

Languages: English, English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 276

eBook

Published: May 21, 2008
ISBN: 9789048501403