Tani E. Barlow

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Tani Barlow
NationalityAmerican
TitleGeorge and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities
Scientific career
Fields History, gender studies, China
Institutions Rice University

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.

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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. [1] 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]

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  1. 1 2 "Tani Barlow: Scholar of Woman Studies". Archived from the original on June 4, 2011.
  2. DuBois, Ellen Carol (Spring 2008), "How Tani Barlow Answers The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism", Journal of Women's History, 20 (1): 227–230, doi:10.1353/jowh.2008.0016, S2CID   145014417 .
  3. Kim, Sonja (2011). "Review of The Modern Girl around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization". Journal of World History. 22 (2): 411–415. ISSN   1045-6007. JSTOR   23011736.
  4. "Tani Barlow". Rice University. Retrieved April 14, 2023.
  5. "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.

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