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Frontmatter -- Table Of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List Of Tables -- 1. Introduction / Khun Eng, Kuah-Pearce -- Part I. Work, Leisure, Politics And Identity -- 2. Internet As Social Capital And Social Network / Khun Eng, Kuah-Pearce -- 3. Agency And Ict Among Singaporean-Chinese Women / Helen, Johnson -- 4. Can The Internet Help? How Immigrant Women From China Get Jobs / Janet, Salaff / Arent, Greve -- 5. Cyberactivism In The Women'S Movement / Ting, Liu -- 6. Cyber Self-Centres? / Sik-ying, Ho Petula / Siu-hang, Tang Wesley / Kiu-chor, Ho -- 7. Embeddedness And Virtual Community / Chong, Gao -- 8. Electronic Park Benches / Victoria, Caplan -- Part II. Love, Sex And Marriage -- 9. Sapphic Shadows / Amy, Sim -- 10. Sex & Life Politics Formed Through The Internet / Ying, Ho Sik / Yuxin, Pei -- 11. On Sale In Express Package / Leung, Maggi W.H. -- 12. Boundary-Crossing Through Cyberspace / Hong, Liu / Lihui, Liu -- Contributors -- Index
This volume examines how Chinese women negotiate the Internet as a research tool and a strategy for the acquisition of information, as well as for social networking purposes. Offering insight into the complicated creation of a female Chinese cybercommunity, Chinese Women and the Cyberspace discusses the impact of increasingly available Internet technology on the life and lifestyle of Chinese women-examining larger issues of how women become both masters of their electronic domain and the objects of exploitation in a faceless online world