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This paper investigates the mediated narratives and identity construction of a reading club of female workers in call centers of multinational corporations in Dalian China, where the discourse of an empowering ‘female force’ has been popularized and scrutinized on Chinese social media. These professional workers manage and construct their emerging middle-class identities through embodied experiences and mediated discourses fostered by an English reading club that is both online and offline. Responding to recent critiques of neoliberal feminism in the Chinese context, this study uses a mixed-method approach to unpack the complex processes of these women’s identity construction and performance through participatory reading practices. This includes ethnographic participant observation in offline reading club activities, in-depth interviews, and a discourse analysis of mediated narratives on social media (WeChat). We argue that Chinese working women’s identity construction and performance are shaped by complex intersections of class, nation, gender and workplace/institutions, where their encounters are in flux, given the changing neoliberal globalization process after China’s four-decade long opening up reform. This study challenges and extends the critique of neoliberal feminism and finds evidence of agency and tactical engagement whereby female workers negotiate their emerging middle-class identities and forge possible solidarities within a networked workplace.
本文着眼“女子力”话语调查分析了大连软件园某全球呼叫中心英文读书会中 女性的媒介化话语和身份认同构建过程。 本文对身份认同理论进行创新尝 试，提出“社会性过渡自我”，阐释职业女性身份认同构建和展演过程的多重 制约因素，挑战并发展了对新自由主义女性主义的批判。本文指出在研究中 国女性权利实践时不能陷入历史的虚无，她们运用科技、职场、公共领域等 资源，策略性运用资本制造的潮流话语构建“网络化职场”，达成互助团结。
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女子力, 社会性过渡自我, 读书会, 新自由主义女性主义, 策略式参与, 身份 协商
