圍群 MONUMENT of APRON

from review of Ping ZHU's Gender and Subjectivities in Early TwentiethCentury Chinese Literature and Culture by ZHENG Yi:

Zhu pinpoints the amorphous “feminine at large,” which she identifies as part of the [New Culture/May Fourth] movement’s foundation, showing how it acted as a touchstone for many derivations and alternatives (as represented by the writers discussed in the book).

目录题目 from the table of contents:

• The Empowered Feminine: Gender, Racial, and Nationalist Discourses

• The Anamorphic Feminine: History, Memory, and Woman in Lu Xun’s Writings

• The Affective Feminine: Mourning Women and the New Nationalist Subject

• The Cosmopolitan Feminine: The Modern Girl and Her Male Other in the New-Sensationalist Fiction

• The Revolutionary Feminine: The Transformation of “Women’s Literature”

• Conclusion: The Feminine and Early Chinese Feminism