| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.3

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Tani E. Barlow. The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism. (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies.) Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2004. Pp. viii, 482. $27.95.

Woman is a "dubious and compromised subject," whose identification is deferred across boundaries of time and place. It is nevertheless indispensable to the historian's task of excavating the past. Recent research by feminist historians of China gives rich evidence of the social and discursive constitution of the gendered subject woman. Yet the question of how to integrate the concept of gender and social history in ways that go beyond the ideological preoccupations of the present remains.

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