SOCI 255 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading: Persistent Organic Pollutant, Fetus, Eugenics
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Chen su has a bachelor"s degree in economics from a top university and works as a manager at a marketing firm in beijing. Her steady income enables her to send money several times a year to support her parents in guangzhou. She is 26 and unhappy with her boyfriend and tries to avoid seeing him more than once a week because she doesn"t enjoy talking to him. He proposed marriage to her and her friend said she should accept because there are no good men and she is almost a leftover woman. Chen has internalized the ideology of china"s mass media campaign surrounding leftover women. The stigma pressures women to rush into marriage with the wrong man. 25 to 27 who are called leftover warriors. 28 to 30 who are called the ones who must triumph. 31 to 35 who are called buddha of victorious battles. 35+ are who are called the great sage equal of heaven.
