Tani E. Barlow Explained

Tani Barlow
Nationality:	American
Field:	History, gender studies, China
Work Institution:	Rice University
George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities

Tani Barlow is an American historian. She is the George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Formerly, Barlow was a professor of history and women studies at the University of Washington and the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is known for her research on feminism in China.

Career

Barlow was professor of history and women studies at the University of Washington. She researched modern China with a particular focus on feminism in China.^{[1] [2]} She received the Best New Journal Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals in 1995 for her journal Positions: Asia critique. In 2008, she published a co-edited volume entitled The Modern Girl around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization on Duke University Press.^[3]

She is currently the George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities at Rice University.^[4] In 2021, Barlow published In The Event of Women with Duke University Press.^[5]

Selected works

• Tani Barlow, In The Event of Women Durham: Duke University Press, 2021.
• Tani Barlow, Madeleine Dong, Uta Poiger, Priti Ramamurthy, Lynn Thomas, and Alys Weinbaum (eds.) The Modern Girl Around the World, Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
• Tani Barlow (ed.), New Asian Marxisms, Durham: Duke University Press, 1997
• Tani Barlow and Angela Zito, Body, Subject, and Power in China, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994

External links

• Google scholar profile
• Tani Barlow Papers – Pembroke Center Archives, Brown University

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tani Barlow: Scholar of Woman Studies. https://web.archive.org/web/20110604153343/http://www.washington.edu/research/showcase/1995b.html . June 4, 2011 . dead.
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3. Kim . Sonja . Review of The Modern Girl around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization . Journal of World History . 2011 . 22 . 2 . 411–415 . 23011736 . 1045-6007.
4. Web site: Tani Barlow . Rice University. April 14, 2023.
5. Web site: Tani Barlow Lecture: In the Event of Women // Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies . Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies . December 7, 2022 . en.