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The aim of this article is to scrutinize car culture and gender in post-socialist China and to show how discourses of mobility and gender have come to be intertwined with the new middle class and ideas of nation and cars as imagined communities. The article departs from theoretical and methodological considerations of gender and car culture and argues that gender and cars are entangled in both global and local assemblages. Using China Daily as the main source of analysis, the article examines how dominant ideas of cars and gender have interfaced with the emerging Chinese middle class and new ideas of masculinity, femininity and Chineseness. Also the article locates car culture as a new site of cultivating individual senses, life styles and new moral aspects of social life. Present day urban car culture in China both challenges and radicalizes fixed figures of gendered and masculinised car culture; while at the same time carving out new gaps related to class, gender and more sustainable modes of transportation.

The article deals with womens organized contribution to the making of the Danish Welfare State during the interwar period. It is argued that women contributed substantially to the debate and the level of decision making. Women's contributions are traced both at the local and at the national levels and documentation derives from a wide range of associations: From conservative, religious ones such at the YWCA to the radical: The Working Women's Association. In the absence of a strong Social-Democratic women's association, the womens rights movement, The Danish Women's Society, became the nexus for a strong coalition of elite women, a networking female elite, with different political backgrounds. They consolidated a longstanding pattern for cooperation among organized women, which also remained in the period after 1945. The stress in this women's rights community was laid in equality measures, which constituted women as individuals with equal rights rather than as gendered persons and in their capacity as mothers and wives.