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With the advent of global restructuring in China, the service sector has become a central site for also restructuring gender. This paper analyzes the gender structure of China’s new global service sector through examining ethnographies of two international hotels, which are linked to a U.S.-based transnational corporation. I ask: Why did these hotels produce different gender identities in response to similar gendered work protocols? My first case, which I call “the Beijing Transluxury Hotel,” illustrates how the importation of new luxury practices by a U.S. corporation are embedded in socialist institutions. This embedding produces a “productive femininity.” A brief discussion of my second case study, the “Kunming Transluxury Hotel.” reveals that managers reproduced only a thin veneer of socialist organizational legacies and women are engulfed by markets. I explain how a defensive femininity is produced in response. The creation of feminized workers grounds global restructuring in women’s bodies and identities with different consequences for women in contrasting locales. By examining workplaces central to China’s new global service sector we can better understand not only how globalization structures gender processes but also the gender processes that structure globalization. The femininities produced in China’s Transluxury Hotels help to bridge cultural differences between businessmen from around the globe, who gather in these sites for conferences and business entertainment. By underscoring shared class and gender identities of businessmen – as these identities are constructed in contrast to the women who serve them – international hotels can form and reinforce an international hegemonic masculinity. |
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| Otis, Eileen. "Global Restructuring and the Production of Femininities in China's Emergent Service Industry" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, GA, Aug 16, 2003 <Not Available>. 2008-10-10 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p106623_index.html> |
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| Otis, E. M. , 2003-08-16 "Global Restructuring and the Production of Femininities in China's Emergent Service Industry" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, GA Online <.PDF>. 2008-10-10 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p106623_index.html |
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Abstract: With the advent of global restructuring in China, the service sector has become a central site for also restructuring gender. This paper analyzes the gender structure of China’s new global service sector through examining ethnographies of two international hotels, which are linked to a U.S.-based transnational corporation. I ask: Why did these hotels produce different gender identities in response to similar gendered work protocols? My first case, which I call “the Beijing Transluxury Hotel,” illustrates how the importation of new luxury practices by a U.S. corporation are embedded in socialist institutions. This embedding produces a “productive femininity.” A brief discussion of my second case study, the “Kunming Transluxury Hotel.” reveals that managers reproduced only a thin veneer of socialist organizational legacies and women are engulfed by markets. I explain how a defensive femininity is produced in response. The creation of feminized workers grounds global restructuring in women’s bodies and identities with different consequences for women in contrasting locales. By examining workplaces central to China’s new global service sector we can better understand not only how globalization structures gender processes but also the gender processes that structure globalization. The femininities produced in China’s Transluxury Hotels help to bridge cultural differences between businessmen from around the globe, who gather in these sites for conferences and business entertainment. By underscoring shared class and gender identities of businessmen – as these identities are constructed in contrast to the women who serve them – international hotels can form and reinforce an international hegemonic masculinity. |
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| Global Restructuring and the Production of Femininities in China's Emergent Service Industry Eileen M. Otis Department of Sociology University of California Davis When in 1949 the Chinese communist party introduced women en masse into wage labor work was not concomitantly feminized. The Maoist state made a concerted effort to eliminate and make irrelevant distinctions between men and women in order to facilitate women’s transition into paid labor (Yang 1999). The state introduced women into work that had been deemed |
| Globalization and its discontents. New York: New Press. Solinger Dorothy J. 1999. Contesting citizenship in urban China: Peasant migrants the state and the logic of the market. Berkeley: University of California Press. Walder Andrew G. 1986. Communist neo-traditionalism: Work and authority in Chinese industry. Berkeley: University of California Press. Yang Mayfair Mei-hui. 1999. “From gender erasure to gender difference: State feminism consumer sexuality and women's public sphere in China.” Pp. 35-67 in Spaces of their own: Women's public sphere |
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