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This chapter focuses on naked bodies and bodily writing as online activism in mainland China—how artists and activists stage nakedness as a sensual yet engaged medium to challenge conservative family planning and acts of sexual abuse. Leta Hong-Fincher in her study of “leftover women” tells of a new wave of state propaganda against sexual enjoyment and eroticism that has emerged alongside a compulsive call for women to get married and procreate before the age of 25. This rhetoric aims to attract a highly educated pool of urban women who are needed to upgrade the quality of the population and who would otherwise be inclined to focus on their careers (Hong-Fincher 2014).
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© 2015 Katrien Jacobs
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Jacobs, K. (2015). Message on the Body in the Chinese Netsphere. In: The Afterglow of Women’s Pornography in Post-Digital China. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137479143_4
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