The Power of Ambivalence: Using Ambivalence as a Healing Resource for Asian Women in the Confucian Context
The purpose of this article is to explore the power of cultivated ambivalence in the task of constructing Confucian feminism. Such resources of cultivated and radical ambivalence create a third space in which Asian women can be true both to themselves and to their ambivalence. In this space, the...
| Published in: | Pastoral psychology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science Business Media B. V.
[2018]
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| In: |
Pastoral psychology
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| RelBib Classification: | AE Psychology of religion BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism NBE Anthropology VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Modernization
B Ambivalence B Feminism B Mental Health B Confucianism B Asian women |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | The purpose of this article is to explore the power of cultivated ambivalence in the task of constructing Confucian feminism. Such resources of cultivated and radical ambivalence create a third space in which Asian women can be true both to themselves and to their ambivalence. In this space, they would be empowered to talk back to both Confucian traditions and Western liberal feminism. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6679 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11089-018-0820-6 |