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Emily Honig

Emily Honig   
Emily Honig
    Title:  Professor
    Type:  Faculty Member
    Email:  ehonig@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-3710 Office
    Office:  332 Humanities 1
    Office Hours:  Fall 2009: Wednesdays, 2:00 - 3:30pm

Courses Taught 
HIS-140C-01 - Revolutionary China, 1895-1960
HIS-140E-01 - Gender, Class, Sex in Modern Shanghai
HIS-145-01 - Gender, Colonialism, and Third World Feminism
HIS-194A-01 - Gender, Class and Sex in Shanghai
HIS-230C-01 - Readings in Twentieth-Century China

Research Focus 
Gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in modern Chinese history; comparative labor history; Chicana history; nationalism and sexuality in the Third World; oral history

Education History 
Ph.D., History Stanford University

Selected Publications 
"Socialist Sex: The Cultural Revolution Revisited," in Modern China, 29.2, April 2003:153-75.

"Maoist Mappings of Gender: Reassessing the Red Guards," in Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities, editors Susan Brownell and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

"Iron Girls Revisited: Gender and the Politics of Work in the Cultural Revolution," in Barbara Gutwisle and Gail Henderson, eds., Re-Drawing the Boundaries of Work, Households, and Gender, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Creating Chinese Ethnicity: Subei People in Shanghai, 1850-1980, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992.

Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980's, with Gail Hershatter, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1988.

Sisters and Strangers: Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919-1949, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1986.