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Gail Hershatter
Researcher at University of California, Santa Cruz
Publications - 29
Citations - 1768
Gail Hershatter is an academic researcher from University of California, Santa Cruz. The author has contributed to research in topics: China & Government. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 29 publications receiving 1699 citations. Previous affiliations of Gail Hershatter include Williams College.
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Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980's
Emily Honig,Gail Hershatter +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the pleasures of adornment and the dangers of sexuality are discussed in the context of growing up female and making a friend: changing patterns of courtship and family relations.
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Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai
TL;DR: Hershatter as discussed by the authors examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century to the present and finds that prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and gender hierarchies, yet they were central figures in Shanghai urban life, entering the historical record whenever others wanted to appreciate, castigate, count, regulate, cure, pathologize, warn about, rescue, eliminate or deploy them as a symbol in a larger social panorama.
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Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai . By Gail Hershatter. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xi, 694 pp. $45.00.
Ming-Bao Yu,Gail Hershatter +1 more
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Women in China's Long Twentieth Century
TL;DR: Hershatter as discussed by the authors surveys more than 650 scholarly works, discussing Chinese women in the context of marriage, family, sexuality, labor, and national modernity, and offers keen analytic insights and judgments about the works themselves and the evolution of related academic fields.