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Blood, body and gender: medical images of the female condition in China: 1600-1850.
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This article is published in East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine.The article was published on 1986-01-01. It has received 40 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Asian studies & East Asia.read more
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The transmission of Chinese medicine
TL;DR: 1. The secret transmission of knowledge and practice 2. Qigong and the concept of Qi 3. The personal transmission ofKnowledge and Styles of knowing Appendix.
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Foot-Binding in Neo-Confucian China and the Appropriation of Female Labor
TL;DR: The tradition du bandage des pieds de la femme en Chine est interpretee, dans cet article, comme etant une epreuve volontaire entreprise par les meres dans le but d'eduquer leurs filles sur les moyens qu'elles ont de reussir dans la monde dirige par les hommes as discussed by the authors.
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The Gendered Rice Bowl The Sexual Politics of Service Work in Urban China
TL;DR: The authors examines new conceptions of gender and sexuality in China, asking how and why they have become so integral to the organization of service work regimes there, and argues that an essentializing discourse of gender legitimates new inequalities in urban China by masking the class distinctions simultaneously produced.
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Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the sex industry is a hidden industry in the sense that little is known of its structure, size and employment relations, and that the collective struggle for sex workers' rights is also an example of a struggle that seeks to make visible the worker and challenge this public-private divide.
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The relationship between menstrual attitudes and menstrual symptoms among Taiwanese women
TL;DR: Attitudes toward menstruation in Taiwanese women are related to their physical, cognitive, behavioural and psychological changes in the premenstrual and menstrual phases, and that significant cross-cultural differences are present.