Research
Overview
My PhD research explores motherhood in contemporary mainland China, particularly from the perspective of urban middle-class women. I am interested in how current pro-natalist policies impact on women’s experiences of and views on motherhood, and whether contemporary discourses on motherhood can be understood to be creating specific narratives of female citizenship. My research is based both on interviews with women and on media portrayals of motherhood, specifically focusing on TV drama.
My research is supervised by Dr Rachel Alsop and Dr James Cummings and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
Publications
Selected publications
Book chapters
Eriksson, S. 2010. ‘Fashioning Chinese Nationalism: Female Bodies as Political Signifiers in the Liangyou Huabao Magazine, 1933-1936’. In Iwatake, M. (Ed.), New Perspectives from Japan and China. Helsinki: Renvall Institute Publications.
Conference papers
Eriksson, S. 2018. Picturing Women in Chinese Republican Era Nationalism. York Asia Research Network annual conference, 20 June 2018, University of York, York (UK). Eriksson, S. 2022. Motherhood as Female Citizenship in Contemporary Chinese TV Drama. British Sociological Association Annual Conference, 20 April 2022, online.
Eriksson, S. 2022. Motherhood as Female Citizenship in Contemporary Chinese TV Drama. European Association of Chinese Studies Biennial Conference, 25 August 2022, Olomouc (Czech Republic).
Teaching
Other teaching
I am currently a graduate teaching assistant on the first-year undergraduate module ‘Crime and Deviance’ at the Department of Sociology. I have previously conducted guest lectures on the CWS postgraduate module ‘Women, Citizenship and Conflict’ on media representations of women in Republican Era China.
