IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-0-230-39368-4_4.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Tipping Gender Scales: From Boys Rule to Girl Power

In: All Eyes East

Author

Listed:
  • Mary Bergstrom

Abstract

In 2009, a Shanghai Carrefour cashier made headlines for literally taking to the streets to advertise her demands for a mate.2 It was not just that Sister Feng was a woman grabbing the reins of the mating ritual or her untraditionally flashy methods that attracted attention. She drew a media blitz for what was perceived as her overly lofty ambitions. At a pint-sized 4’8”, with dark skin and an exceptionally wide mouth with buckteeth, Sister Feng was fatally unattractive by Chinese standards. The fact that she was not a traditional beauty was only one strike against her. Sister Feng also did not possess important family connections or an exceptional academic pedigree.

Suggested Citation

  • Mary Bergstrom, 2012. "Tipping Gender Scales: From Boys Rule to Girl Power," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: All Eyes East, chapter 0, pages 65-89, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-39368-4_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-0-230-39368-4_4
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-39368-4_4. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.