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Publication details [#65374]

Feldshuh, Hannah. 2018. Gender, media, and myth-making: constructing China’s leftover women. Asian Journal of Communication 28 (1) : 38–54.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gender | mass media | myth | sexism | stereotype

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This study explores and collates sociological inquiry on Chinese marriage patterns, ‘leftover women’ presentations in modern Chinese media, and substantive interview results to grasp the role of media in gender discourse construction and in gender stereotype perpetuation.