| Titre | Engendering the Development of the Autism Kangfu Industry in Urban China | |
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| Auteur | Mengzhu An | |
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Revue | China perspectives |
| Numéro | no 141, 2025 Medicine, Care, and Gender in Contemporary China | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Special feature |
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| Page | 9-19 | |
| Résumé anglais |
This article examines the development of China's autism kangfu industry through a feminist lens, revealing how the state's biopolitical project of disability governance operates through patriarchal structures. Based on content analysis, interviews, and fieldwork primarily in Guangdong Province, it highlights the infrastructural contributions of mothers and female practitioners. This study demonstrate how this industry bridges the resource gap through mobilising gendered labour that has reshaped kangfu, which focuses on enhancing social, linguistic, cognitive, and self-care skills in autistic children into a hybrid practice intertwining therapy, care, and intimacy, distancing it from Western technical-disciplinary models. However, the industry's pursuit of professionalisation has led to the technocratisation of kangfu, marginalising the female practitioners' embodied knowledge of kangfu and intensifying mothers' cognitive burdens. Source : Éditeur (via OpenEdition Journals) |
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| Article en ligne | https://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/18193 |
