Item – Theses Canada

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OCLC number
898033451
Link(s) to full text
LAC copy
Author
Anderson, Samantha,
Title
Gender performativity and ritual performance in South-east China
Degree
M.A. -- McGill University, 1996
Publisher
[Montreal] : McGill University Libraries, [1996]
Description
1 online resource
Notes
Thesis supervisor: Dean, Kenneth (advisor).
Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract
"This thesis explores issues of subjectivity and gender around ritual activity in Xianyou county, Fujian Province, China. It focuses on three groups of women: Buddhist nuns, mediums and village women engaged in the ritual caretaking of their families. It also examines a spirit writing text from the late Qing dynasty (1644-1911). It is suggested that subject positions and kin positions are to a certain extent coextensive and that participation in certain rituals is what constitutes one as a gendered subject (as a "woman") and in certain kin roles (as wife, daughter-in-law, etc.). Other gendered subject positions (such as that of melancholic lover) are explored in an attempt to complicate any simple determinism that might accompany to easy a correspondence of kin position with sex role."--
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Subject
Sex role China
China Social life and customs