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Sex in Big-Character Posters from China's Cultural Revolution : Gendering the Class Enemy

In English

Författare

Redaktör

  • Karen Petrone
  • Jie-hyun Lim

Summary, in English

As a defining component of the Cultural Revolution, the “dictatorship of the masses” did away with constraints that had previously kept the most private of the private parts of Chinese people’s lives out of the political arena. In the years 1966–1969, in particular, discursive strands that did not shy away from the topic of sex in politics and revolution proliferated. This paper comments on some recurring common themes of gender and the male “class enemy” (his positive heroic counterpart, as it were, remained a strangely asexual creature throughout) and of sexuality and the revolutionary or counter-revolutionary woman. Found in public and highly visible so-called big-character posters, the discourse that blended politics into sex ended up giving impetus to a movement that brought down many a corrupt politician, but at the cost of traumatizing countless innocent victims who never recovered from seeing their lives’ “darkest aspects exposed openly.”

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2010

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

237-257

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Gender Politics and Mass Dictatorship: Global Perspectives

Volym

#1 in book series "Mass Dictatorship in the 20th Century"

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Förlag

Palgrave Macmillan

Ämne

  • History and Archaeology

Nyckelord

  • sex
  • discourse
  • gender
  • China
  • Cultural Revolution

Status

Published

Projekt

  • Mass Dictatorships of the 20th Century

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 9780230242043