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    Being Single in the City

    Cultural Geographies of Gendered Urban Space in Asia

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    Contributor(s)
    Brosius, Christiane (editor)
    Collection
    AG Universitätsverlage
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    What does it mean to be a single woman in India or China? Being single is an advancing trend, also in Asia. There is an ambivalent fascination with the single woman as a new type of empowered, pleasure-seeking, competent lifestyle-surfer, and dedicated career-maker. And yet, the single woman is also stigmatized and isolated, discriminated against or stereotyped as someone who challenges social norms. Place matters for singlehood. This book focuses on the urban fabric of India, mainland China, and Hong Kong. For it is here that social, economic, cultural, and political transformations become manifest and new possibilities of living are tested and vividly contested.
     
    Was bedeutet es, eine alleinstehende Frau in Indien oder China zu sein? Singles sind auf dem Vormarsch, auch in Asien. Es gibt eine ambivalente Faszination für die alleinstehende Frau als neuen Typus der selbstbewussten, kompetenten „Lifestyle-Surferin“ und engagierten Karrieremacherin. Und doch wird die alleinstehende Frau auch stigmatisiert, diskriminiert oder als jemand stereotypisiert, der soziale Normen herausfordert. Orte sind wichtig für das Singledasein: dieses Buch konzentriert sich insbesondere auf urbane Räume Indiens, des chinesischen Festlandes und Hongkongs. Schließlich manifestieren sich hier soziale, wirtschaftliche, kulturelle und politische Transformationen, werden neue Lebensmöglichkeiten erprobt und lebhaft diskutiert.
     
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    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93992
    Keywords
    Gender; Asia; Single; Transcultural; City
    DOI
    10.17885/heiup.1425
    ISBN
    9783968222776, 9783968222783, 9783968222776
    Publisher
    Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP)
    Publisher website
    https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/
    Publication date and place
    Heidelberg, 2024
    Imprint
    heiUP
    Series
    Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality, 11
    Classification
    Social discrimination and social justice
    China
    Gender studies: women and girls
    Pages
    259
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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