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dc.contributor.authorWen, Manen_UK
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Shaoyingen_UK
dc.contributor.authorMcGhee, Dereken_UK
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-19T01:00:36Z-
dc.date.available2022-01-19T01:00:36Z-
dc.date.issued2020-03en_UK
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/33848-
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the emergence of the role of “moral doctors” who volunteer in what are called “moral clinics” in Huzhou city. In these moral clinics, the characteristics, experiences, and attributes of older women, in particular, are highly valued and viewed as being essential to the role of the moral doctor. These moral doctors act as moral exemplars and conflict mediators in their local communities. Their moral capital and professionalism, combined with their gender, age, familial and neighborhood attributes, contribute to the accumulation of an affective feminized labor which employs the techniques of care, reason, and moral fortitude to govern the self and others. We unpack these ethical virtues exemplified by moral doctors and nurses in order to show how a female-centric “ethic of care” can become a set of techniques in governing others. In this paper, we elaborate on the role that these moral doctors perform to support the aims of the moral clinics in terms of fostering pro-social behavior and moral obligation in local communities. We argue that the performance of this type of “moral work” is both a mechanism of discipline and a process of self-actualization. We contribute to the current literature on “therapeutic governance” in China by showing how the non-expert medicalization of social ills by moral doctors is incorporated into the reproduction of social control.en_UK
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherWileyen_UK
dc.relationWen M, Zhang S & McGhee D (2020) Utilizing the moral nobility of older Chinese women in governance: The uses of humility, empathy, and an ethics of care in moral clinics in Huzhou city. British Journal of Sociology, 71 (2), pp. 300-313. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12736en_UK
dc.rightsThis is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Wen, M, Zhang, S, McGhee, D. Utilizing the moral nobility of older Chinese women in governance: The uses of humility, empathy, and an ethics of care in moral clinics in Huzhou city. British Journal of Sociology 2020; 71: 300-313., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12736. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited.en_UK
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en_UK
dc.subjectaffection and reasonen_UK
dc.subjectaffective laboren_UK
dc.subjectChinaen_UK
dc.subjectethics of careen_UK
dc.subjectmoral clinicsen_UK
dc.subjectmoral doctorsen_UK
dc.titleUtilizing the moral nobility of older Chinese women in governance: The uses of humility, empathy, and an ethics of care in moral clinics in Huzhou cityen_UK
dc.typeJournal Articleen_UK
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1468-4446.12736en_UK
dc.identifier.pmid31930489en_UK
dc.citation.jtitleBritish Journal of Sociologyen_UK
dc.citation.issn1468-4446en_UK
dc.citation.issn0007-1315en_UK
dc.citation.volume71en_UK
dc.citation.issue2en_UK
dc.citation.spage300en_UK
dc.citation.epage313en_UK
dc.citation.publicationstatusPublisheden_UK
dc.citation.peerreviewedRefereeden_UK
dc.type.statusAM - Accepted Manuscripten_UK
dc.citation.date13/01/2020en_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationShanghai University of Political Science and Lawen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationShanghai University of Political Science and Lawen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationKeele Universityen_UK
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000506687200001en_UK
dc.identifier.scopusid2-s2.0-85077846336en_UK
dc.identifier.wtid1766926en_UK
dc.date.accepted2019-12-19en_UK
dcterms.dateAccepted2019-12-19en_UK
dc.date.filedepositdate2022-01-18en_UK
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local.rioxx.authorWen, Man|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorZhang, Shaoying|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorMcGhee, Derek|en_UK
local.rioxx.projectInternal Project|University of Stirling|https://isni.org/isni/0000000122484331en_UK
local.rioxx.freetoreaddate2022-01-18en_UK
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