Blurring life and work: the predicament of young middle-class women in Shanghai.
The article examines the positioning of young middle-class women in the dispositif of creativity in China. Based on empirical fieldwork, it argues that the call to be creative – as a form of governmentality – directs the middle-class youth to work and live with limited social protections. The discou...
| Publicado en: | Cultural Studies Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 302 - 320 |
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Mar 2022
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