Muslim Women at a Crossroads: Gender and Development in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China

详细信息   

• 作者：Huang ; Cindy Yung-Leh
• 学历：Doctor
• 年：2009
• 关键词：Social sciences ; China ; Development ; Gender ; Islam ; Uyg
• 导师：Ong,Aihwa
• 毕业院校：University of California
• Department：Anthropology
• 专业：Cultural anthropology;Asian Studies;Womens studies
• ISBN：9781267228178
• CBH：3498981
• Country：USA
• 语种：English
• FileSize：3773766
• Pages：97

文摘

This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the Muslim Uyghur ethnic minority in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern China. I explore how the narratives of the women I study reflect historical conditions,as well as shape their political,ethical and cultural engagement in the present. In dozens of interviews and over a year of participant observation,a persistent theme emerged: being one who is japakesh,one who perseveres through difficulty and suffers with a moral purpose. Given the shifting demands of an environment marked by rapid change and development,being japakesh entails different sacrifices and challenges for each generation. Even as the women share a concern with how to live a good life as a Muslim Uyghur woman in Xinjiang today,this project takes on a form and character particular to their historical experiences. In weaving together the gendered stories of those who came of age during different periods of China's development (socialist,reform and post-reform),I illuminate the contours and ambivalences of generational narratives,in particular vis-à-vis the rising dominance of "middle class" dreams. The stories that women shared with me,and that I contextualize and retell in this dissertation,convey a sense of how life is conceived of,and therefore how life is lived,in contemporary Xinjiang.