女性/性别研究在20世纪末成为显学，是20世纪60年代新女权运动的成果；在中国，它是80年代“妇女研究运动”的产物。本书以公开讲座为基础，上篇“新中国妇女研究”多与现实问题相关，从20世纪80年代至今，可见中国妇女研究发展的具体进程；下篇“性别研究与基础教育”侧重学理讨论和学科建设，与西方女性主义对应并相互呼应，在寻根溯源的基础上为中国妇女研究开掘本土资源。
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•作者李小江是女性研究的著名学者，1980年代“妇女研究运动”的发起人和学科带头人，为启动中国妇女学和性别研究做了大量奠基工作。
•书中内容多取自作者现场讲学，计有20篇，贯穿30年，涉及妇女研究问题的多个方面和角度，中外交织，视野开阔。
•各讲主题涵盖了改革以来一系列重要的妇女问题和学科建设中的理论问题，有实践，有体验，有跨文化对话，在扎根本土的基础上回应女性/性别研究中诸多难题，为高校教学和研究以及教材编撰提供不易多得的学术资源。

Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or transform the state, this is a moral reform movement whose orthodox practices are commonly viewed as inconsequential to Egypt's political landscape. Saba Mahmood's compelling exposition of these practices challenges this assumption by showing how the ethical and the political are indelibly linked within the context of such movements. Not only is this book a sensitive ethnography of a critical but largely ignored dimension of the Islamic revival, it is also an unflinching critique of the secular-liberal principles by which some people hold such movements to account. The book addresses three central questions: How do movements of moral reform help us rethink the normative liberal account of politics? How does the adherence of women to the patriarchal norms at the core of such movements parochialize key assumptions within feminist theory about freedom, agency, authority, and the human subject? How does a consideration of debates about embodied religious rituals among Islamists and their secular critics help us understand the conceptual relationship between bodily form and political imaginaries? Politics of Piety is essential reading for anyone interested in issues at the nexus of ethics and politics, embodiment and gender, and liberalism and postcolonialism.

From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today--written as a letter to a friend.
A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie's letter of response.
Here are fifteen invaluable suggestions--compelling, direct, wryly funny, and perceptive--for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. From encouraging her to choose a helicopter, and not only a doll, as a toy if she so desires; having open conversations with her about clothes, makeup, and sexuality; debunking the myth that women are somehow biologically arranged to be in the kitchen making dinner, and that men can "allow" women to have full careers, Dear Ijeawele goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century. It will start a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.

The Ming–Qing dynastic transition in seventeenth-century China was an epochal event that reverberated in Qing writings and beyond; political disorder was bound up with vibrant literary and cultural production. Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature focuses on the discursive and imaginative space commanded by women. Encompassing writings by women and by men writing in a feminine voice or assuming a female identity, as well as writings that turn women into a signifier through which authors convey their lamentation, nostalgia, or moral questions for the fallen Ming, the book delves into the mentality of those who remembered or reflected on the dynastic transition, as well as those who reinvented its significance in later periods. It shows how history and literature intersect, how conceptions of gender mediate the experience and expression of political disorder.
Why and how are variations on themes related to gender boundaries, female virtues, vices, agency, and ethical dilemmas used to allegorize national destiny? In pursuing answers to these questions, Wai-yee Li explores how this multivalent presence of women in different genres provides a window into the emotional and psychological turmoil of the Ming-Qing transition and of subsequent moments of national trauma.

《危险的愉悦》是一部上海娼妓业史话，但它是产生于后结构主义时代的史学著作，得益于20世纪后半叶丰富的理论探索、思想对话与多重视角，作者尤其受到马克思主义、女性主义与社会性别研究、后结构主义、后殖民研究中“下属群体”概念等的影响，将“史料”和自己所生产的“历史”都看作是无比生动的、复杂的、开放的“过程”中的对话、商谈、记忆、建构、创造活动。《危险的愉悦》分五大部分，共15章，论述从晚清到20世纪90年代初100年间，“娼妓”问题在各个层面上如何扭结了民族意识、政治权力关系、商业和经济利益、强国方针、社会改革、民族心理、欲望和恐惧、社会性别构造等等的丰富的语义场，成为相当核心的中国政治、经济、历史和精神文化的象征符号。《危险的愉悦》获得美国历史学会琼·凯利妇女史著作纪念奖，这是历史学会首次将此奖项授予写美国以外地区妇女历史的作者。

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where Judith Butler began to advance the ideas that would go on to take life as "performativity theory," as well as some of the first articulations of the possibility for subversive gender practices, and she writes in her preface to the 10th anniversary edition released in 1999 that one point of Gender Trouble was "not to prescribe a new gendered way of life [...] but to open up the field of possibility for gender [...]" Widely taught, and widely debated, Gender Trouble continues to offer a powerful critique of heteronormativity and of the function of gender in the modern world.

来自印尼、菲律宾和越南的女性，来到陌生的国度从事家务劳动。雇用她们的台湾雇主，多数是青壮年的中产阶级，他们的父母辈少有在家雇用佣人的历史，这些“新富家庭”的经验，映现了台湾社会在阶级、族群、性别与代间关系的转变。

为了解台湾雇主和东南亚帮佣之间的互动关系，台湾大学社会系教授蓝佩嘉花了数年时间，访谈了超过百位的印菲帮佣和台湾雇主，了解劳雇双方在家庭屋檐下所面临的结构困境、生存策略与认同政治。

蓝佩嘉以“跨国灰姑娘”的比喻来彰显家务移工的处境：她们或为了逃离家乡的贫穷与压迫，或为了扩展人生视野及探索现代世界。跨越国界工作后，却发现自己坐困雇主家中，被视为“用完就丢”的劳动力，灰姑娘的美满结局仍如童话般梦幻。

相对于2006年的英文版，作者以返璞归真的母语和大量的生命故事，描绘了“跨国灰姑娘”的身影，并且透过社会学透视，展现了台湾雇主和东南亚移工，在全球化社会中相遇而生的种种面貌。

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这本具有开创性的研究，呈现了种族、阶级、性别和公民身份等等界限，如何在家务移工的生命中形成。蓝佩嘉经由划界工作的理论透镜，为萌芽发展中的女性迁移研究贡献了极为重要的成果。这是一本杰出的作品。

——Rhacel Parreñas, 布朗大学美国文明学系教授

我们或许会以为，只要和世界上的其他人接触越多，我们和他们的社会关系就越亲密。但是蓝佩嘉指出我们错得有多严重。在某些状况下，台湾的女雇主和他们的菲佣很“亲密”，但在其他时候两方则非常疏远。的确，有时最接近的反面最为遥远。这本脉络清晰、掷地有声的重要著作，便是在讨论这些现象如何发生。

——Arlie Hochschild，柏克莱大学社会学系荣誉教授

这是一本独一无二的学术作品，论述圆融、研究透彻、理论扎实，不但具有高度可读性，而且蕴含深度人文关怀。

——Delias Davin，英国里兹大学中国学研究所荣誉教授

China’s historical women warriors hailed from the northeast (Manchuria) during the Liao (907–1125) and Jin (1115–1234) dynasties. Celebrated in the Liao History, they were "unprecedented." They rode horseback astride, were good at hunting and shooting, and took part in military battles. Several empresses―and one famous bandit chief―led armies against the enemy Song state. Women of the Conquest Dynasties represents a groundbreaking effort to survey the customs and lives of these women from the Kitan and Jurchen tribes who maintained their native traditions of horsemanship, militancy, and sexual independence while excelling in writing poetry and prose and earning praise for their Buddhist piety and Confucian ethics. Although much work has been devoted in the last few years to Chinese women of various periods, this is the first volume to incorporate recent archaeological discoveries and information drawn from Liao and Jin paintings as well as literary sources and standard historical accounts.
Conquest women combined agency and assertiveness drawn from steppe traditions with selected aspects of Chinese culture such as ethics and literacy. Empress Chengtian led Liao armies to victory against the Song, successfully ran the state for thirty years during her son’s reign, and enjoyed a lengthy and public liaison with her prime minister. Empress Yingtian, the wife of the Liao founder and his assistant in military affairs, famously refused to comply with the steppe custom of following one’s husband in death; instead she cut off her right hand and placed it in the late emperor’s coffin as a promise to join him later. These confident and talented women were rarely submissive in matters of sexuality and spouse selection, but they were subject to the restrictions of marriage and the levirate if widowed.
The women of the northeast stand in vivid contrast to their counterparts in the south, where female identity was molded by a millennia of Confucian ethics and women were increasingly sequestered in the home and constrained by concepts of virtue. Women of the Conquest Dynasties provides new insights into the history of steppe patterns of feminine behavior and will reveal new areas of comparative study.

Living in an altered past that never saw the end of the Great Depression, Jeannine, a librarian, is waiting to be married. Joanna lives in a different version of reality: she's a 1970s feminist trying to succeed in a man's world. Janet is from Whileaway, a utopian earth where only women exist. And Jael is a warrior with steel teeth and catlike retractable claws, from an earth with separate-and warring-female and male societies. When these four women meet, the results are startling, outrageous, and subversive.

本书以珠三角地区性产业女性从业者对“小姐”及“性工作者”称谓的理解为切入点，通过探讨她们的自我身份认同、自我实践和生活技巧来理解她们的欲望和自主性。研究指出，这些女性在日益复杂分化的性产业中有着非常不同的生活经验，她们有着强烈的成为情色/性主体、都市主体与现代化主体的欲望，而“性工作”这一概念并不能反映这种复杂性，因此娼妓合法化、性工作化的设想并不是政府干预的最佳目标，也不是改善这些女性生活状况的最佳行动策略。