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Publication details [#57487]

Yang, Anson. 2013. The politics of huanghua: Gender, metaphors, and privatization in China. Language & Communication 33 (1) : 61–68.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gender | language use | metaphor | modernization | workplace conversation

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This paper focuses on how gender forms an organizing principle of the privatization process of a Beijing state enterprise, shifting class tension onto the devalued laboring bodies of cheaper migrant women, addressed by male workers via gendered metaphors and sexualized discourse.