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Ruwen Chang 常入文
Gender and Women's Studies
Ph.D. Candidate
Graduate Instructor

Ruwen Chang is a Ph.D. Candidate of Gender and Women Studies at the University of Kentucky. Her dissertation focuses on reproductive justice, gendered violence, the hierarchy of masculinity, and alternative kin-making in contemporary China. Specifically, her dissertation research examines how definitions of the human subject are produced, reproduced, and contested through policies and discourses around reproduction in China, and how social privileges and exclusions are intertwined with those definitions. She teaches courses on introduction to Gender and Women's Studies and transnational reproductive justice. Her research has been presented at many regional, national, and international conferences. 

Contact Information
ruwenchang@uky.edu
111 Breckinridge Hall
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Education


July 2017, M. A. in Sociology, Peking University, Beijing, China.

June 2014, Bachelor of Law in Journalism and Communication, China Youth University of Political Studies, Beijing, China

Research Interests
  • Contemporary China
  • body politics
  • social stratification
  • Transnational Reproductive Justice
  • The Hierarchy of Masculinities
  • Alternative Kin-Making
  • Gendered Violence
Affiliations
  • Gender and Women's Studies