Trans Kids is a trenchant ethnographic and interview-based study of the first generation of families affirming and facilitating gender nonconformity in children. Previous generations of parents sent such children for psychiatric treatment aimed at a cure, but today’s parents agree to call their children new names, allow them to wear whatever clothing they choose, and approach the state to alter the gender designation on their passports and birth certificates. Sociologist Tey Meadow argues that these parents are negotiating gender in new and significant ways, with everyone and everything, from intimates to institutions. Drawing from sociology, philosophy, psychology, and sexuality studies, Meadow depicts the intricate social processes that shape gender acquisition. Atypical gender expression was once considered a failure of gender, but now it is a form of gender. Engaging and rigorously argued, Trans Kids underscores both the centrality of ever more particular configurations of gender in both our physical and psychological life, and the increasing embeddedness of personal identities in social institutions.

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.

Through window displays, newspapers, soap operas, gay bars, and other public culture venues, Chinese citizens are negotiating what it means to be cosmopolitan citizens of the world, with appropriate needs, aspirations, and longings. Lisa Rofel argues that the creation of such “desiring subjects” is at the core of China’s contingent, piece-by-piece reconfiguration of its relationship to a post-socialist world. In a study at once ethnographic, historical, and theoretical, she contends that neoliberal subjectivities are created through the production of various desires—material, sexual, and affective—and that it is largely through their engagements with public culture that people in China are imagining and practicing appropriate desires for the post-Mao era.Drawing on her research over the past two decades among urban residents and rural migrants in Hangzhou and Beijing, Rofel analyzes the meanings that individuals attach to various public cultural phenomena and what their interpretations say about their understandings of post-socialist China and their roles within it. She locates the first broad-based public debate about post-Mao social changes in the passionate dialogues about the popular 1991 television soap opera Yearnings. She describes how the emergence of gay identities and practices in China reveals connections to a transnational network of lesbians and gay men at the same time that it brings urban/rural and class divisions to the fore. The 1999–2001 negotiations over China’s entry into the World Trade Organization; a controversial women’s museum; the ways that young single women portray their longings in relation to the privations they imagine their mothers experienced; adjudications of the limits of self-interest in court cases related to homoerotic desire, intellectual property, and consumer fraud—Rofel reveals all of these as sites where desiring subjects come into being.

从吉布逊女郎到轻佻女郎，从荡妇到新妇女，卡罗琳·凯奇通过研究杂志封面追溯了大众媒介中妇女形象发展的历史轨迹，揭示了20世纪早期美国文化中社会性别刻板形象的起源。凯奇通过对主要美国杂志封面上不断演变的“故事”所进行的敏锐细致的分析，以一种引人思考、难以预料的方式揭示了1895到1930年间，影响广泛、持续变化的形象模式，正是通过这些模式，妇女所扮演的各种社会角色才得以“显现”。就研究大众文化及其与女性主义发展史的共生关系而言，本书是该领域的主要作品之一。
卡罗琳·凯奇的这部专门研究杂志封面女郎的原创性论著图文并茂，她试图通过对这些妇女形象的研究，向读者演示20世纪早期美国杂志出版文化中关于妇女的刻板形象的再现，这是跨学科的“媒介与社会性别”研究的核心论题之一。
本书作者希望通过追溯美国大众媒介中（主要以妇女杂志为例）妇女形象的历史根源，检验今天被现为当代问题的刻板形象（stereotypes）问题，正如作者所言：“在整个20世纪，大众媒介如何描绘美国妇女——建立一套现在被视作自然的、视觉的妇女语汇——正是这本书的主题，是去探求、理解媒介形象如何创造、改变并使某些特定的（即支配地位的）而非另类的（即非支配地位的）文化理想永垂不朽。这项研究中的中心问题是：为什么和怎样，大众媒介中的女权主义被循环地宣布生存或消亡。”

《女性的奥秘》讲述了她,引发了第二次女权主意运动的浪潮,《女性的奥秘(第一推动力改变美的20本书)》关于社会关系的见解唤醒了男人和女人。这《女性的奥秘(第一推动力改变美的20本书)》改变了一个国家,甚至这个世界的意识。

What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group―rural women―at the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Interweaving these women’s life histories with insightful analysis, Hershatter shows how Party-state policy became local and personal, and how it affected women’s agricultural work, domestic routines, activism, marriage, childbirth, and parenting―even their notions of virtue and respectability. The women narrate their pasts from the vantage point of the present and highlight their enduring virtues, important achievements, and most deeply harbored grievances. In showing what memories can tell us about gender as an axis of power, difference, and collectivity in 1950s rural China and the present, Hershatter powerfully examines the nature of socialism and how gender figured in its creation.

这本论文集是对“百年中国女权思潮研究”国际学术讨论会的一个总结——虽然因为种种原因部分与会学者的文章未能收入本书，但就全书所收26篇文章而言，集中了中国大陆、台湾和海外诸多学者之力——从功底深厚的学界前辈，到后生可畏的研究生。这些文章多由基本的史料、话语、文本分析入手，用社会性别的视角，对《女界钟》面世以来，百年中国女权历程和女权思潮展开全新的历史诠释。
这本论文集是历史学、文学和社会学等领域交叉冲撞的成果，是对近年来中国近代妇女史和女权主义研究的一次小结。在编辑过程中，文稿基本按9个专题组织，但专题的名称未必与相应的每一篇文稿内容相符，所有文稿的排序也与大会交流的顺序有所不同，不当之处敬请谅解。王政、高彦颐和刘禾三教授的“铿锵三人谈”作为代序，提出了很多值得深入思考与继续研究的新观点、新视角和新领域。鉴于论文集无法反映大会全貌，书本所附大会综述介绍了此次研讨会的基本情况，包括论文的基本观点、评论者和其他与会学者的即兴发言。
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“百年中国女权思潮研究”国际学术讨论会得在上海召开，其中得到了各方的鼎力支持，殊属不易。2004年6月，来自10个国家与地区的120余位海内外学者共襄盛会，令大会成为百年来在中国大陆举办的最大规模、最高水准的关于中国女权主义研究和近代中国妇女史研究的学术研讨会。在此期间，我们得到福特基金会和香港乐施会的大力支持和慷慨解囊，在此表示衷心的感谢。
会议的举办和论文集的出版，最应感谢密西很大学王政教授，她多年来无私地奔波于大洋两岸，为了推动中国的社会性别研究，她对本次大会的每一个环节——发起、募款、组织、主持、评估和总结，都倾注了大量的心力，可以说没有她的执著与努力就没有这次盛会和这本论文集。
还应感谢我所在的复旦大学历史系和系主任吴景平教授。吴老师对在复旦推动跨学科的社会性别研究眼光独具、身体力行，给予我很多实际的帮助与指导。复旦大学出版社编辑史立丽学妹大力支持、高效工作，我的研究生唐春辉同学协助编辑、统稿，在此一并致谢。

Kay Ann Johnson provides much-needed information about women and gender equality under Communist leadership. She contends that, although the Chinese Communist Party has always ostensibly favored women's rights and family reform, it has rarely pushed for such reforms. In reality, its policies often have reinforced the traditional role of women to further the Party's predominant economic and military aims.
Johnson's primary focus is on reforms of marriage and family because traditional marriage, family, and kinship practices have had the greatest influence in defining and shaping women's place in Chinese society. Conversant with current theory in political science, anthropology, and Marxist and feminist analysis, Johnson writes with clarity and discernment free of dogma. Her discussions of family reform ultimately provide insights into the Chinese government's concern with decreasing the national birth rate, which has become a top priority. Johnson's predictions of a coming crisis in population control are borne out by the recent increase in female infanticide and the government abortion campaign.

The Communist revolution promised Chinese women an end to thousands of years of subjugation, an equality with men in all matters legal, political, social, and economic. This book examines the extent to which this promise has been kept. Based on nearly a year of field research and interviews with over 300 women in six widely separated rural and urban areas, it gives us a vivid picture of Chinese women today - their day-to-day lives, their views of the present, and their hopes for the future. To date nothing approximating equality has been achieved: in working conditions, in pay, in educational opportunity. In the cities, and to a lesser extent in the countryside, women are better off than in pre-revolutionary China. But nowhere except in the rhetoric of the regime are they equal to men. Nor does the immediate future look much brighter, given the continuing social constraints, the government's controversial family limitation program, and the nature of the new economic policies introduced in 1980. So far as possible, the women interviewed are allowed to speak for themselves. Some take refuge behind government slogans, some are shy or wary, but a surprising number are quick to give their own opinions despite an ever-present government cadre. These opinions, combined with the author's astute observations on their local and national context, add up to a wholly new perspective on an all too familiar problem.