CHAIRPERSON
Dr Michiel Baas, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
ABSTRACT
Idol Li Yuchun, one of the P.R.C.’s most popular singers, has a deeply androgynous public persona; one of her nicknames is “Brother Chun.” In this paper I analyze her “gender-neutral” persona and fans’ responses to it in order to ask questions about changing stereotypes of femininity in contemporary P.R.C. mass culture. Through this analysis, I consider how trans-gendering and stereotype evolution can function hand in hand.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Maud Lavin is Professor of Visual and Critical Studies and Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She received her PhD in Art History from the City University of New York, Graduate Center, MA in Art History from the University of Pennsylvania and BA, magna cum laude, in Visual and Environmental Studies, Radcliffe College, Harvard University. She is the author of Push Comes to Shove: New Images of Aggressive Women (MIT Press), Clean New World: Culture, Politics, and Graphic Design (MIT Press), and Cut with the Kitchen Knife: The Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Hoech (Yale UP).
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