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Chasing happiness : the role of marriage in the aspiration of success among China’s middle-class women
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Xie, Kailing (2019) Chasing happiness : the role of marriage in the aspiration of success among China’s middle-class women. In: Carter, Julia and Arocha, Lorena, (eds.) Romantic Relationships in a Time of ‘Cold Intimacies’. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life . Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 181-206. ISBN 9783030292553
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29256-0_9
Abstract
The first only-child generation born in the 1980s has experienced the great transformations in Chinese society under marketisation. Simultaneously, the state has re-emphasised ‘traditional family values’ to counteract increasing individualism and compensate the lack of public welfare provision. Based on interviews with 31 middle-class women and 11 men born in this cohort, this chapter investigates these women’s attempt to fulfil the ideal of a happy complete family. I apply the analytical tools offered by Illouz (Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2012) about love’s great transformation in Western societies to examine the conditions within which romantic choices are made, shedding light on why women make certain choices to find love and why love hurts for these women in the Chinese context.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||
Series Name: | Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life | ||||
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan | ||||
ISBN: | 9783030292553 | ||||
Book Title: | Romantic Relationships in a Time of ‘Cold Intimacies’ | ||||
Editor: | Carter, Julia and Arocha, Lorena | ||||
Official Date: | 31 October 2019 | ||||
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Page Range: | pp. 181-206 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-29256-0_9 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published |
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