Tani E. Barlow

Tani Barlow
Nationality American
Fields History, Gender Studies, China
Institutions Rice University
Alma mater University of California, Davis

Tani Barlow is a scholar of feminism, postcoloniality, and history in Asia and most specifically in China. She is the T.T. and W.F. Chao Professor of History and director of the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University.[1] Formerly, Prof Barlow was a professor of history and women studies at the University of Washington.[2] She is known for her groundbreaking work on Chinese feminism.[3]

Barlow edits the journal positions: east asia cultures critique, for which she received the 1995 Best New Journal Award by The Council of Editors of Learned Journals of the Modern Language Association.

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Education

Significant Publications

Tani Barlow, Madeleine Dong, Uta Poiger, Priti Ramamurthy, Lynn Thomas, and Alys Weinbaum (eds.) The Modern Girl Around the World, Durham: Duke University Press, 2008

Tani Barlow, The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism, Durham: Duke University Press, 2004

Tani Barlow (ed.) New Asian Marxisms, Durham: Duke University Press, 1997

Tani Barlow (ed.), Formations of Colonial Modernity in East Asia, Durham: Duke University Press, 1997

Tani Barlow (ed.), Gender Politics in Modern China: Writing and Feminism, Durham: Duke University Press, 1994

Tani Barlow and Angela Zito, Body, Subject, and Power in China, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994

Videos of Tani Barlow

A lecture at Duke University

Notes

  1. ^ http://history.rice.edu/content.aspx?id=442
  2. ^ http://www.washington.edu/research/showcase/1995b.html
  3. ^ Ellen Carol DuBois How Tani Barlow Answers The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism Journal of Women's History - Volume 20, Number 1, Spring 2008, pp. 227-230,http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/journal_of_womens_history/v020/20.1dubois.html

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