Postfeminism in China: The 'Glow Girl', Aesthetic Labour, and Social Media

Situated within feminist media and cultural studies, this book examines the everyday aesthetic labour of young middle-class Chinese women and their related social media practices. It also critically contextualises postfeminism within China’s paradoxically neoliberal society.

Drawing upon in-depth interviews with young middle-class women in China’s first-tier cities, the book offers a nuanced feminist understanding of young women’s femininities, identities, and subjectivities in contemporary ...