Gender Dynamics, Feminist Activism and Social Transformation in China

Guoguang Wu, Yuan Feng, Helen Lansdowne (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

282 Seiten

2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-58336-1 (ISBN)

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This book explores the extent to which women have been initiators, mobilizers, and driving forces of social transformation in China. The book considers how conceptions of women’s roles have changed as China has moved from state socialism to engagement with capitalist globalization, examines the growth of women’s gender and sexual consciousness and social movements for women’s rights, including for marginalized social and sex/gender grouops, and discusses women’s roles in society-state interactions, including many forms of social activism, cultural events, educational innovations, and more. Overall, the book demonstrates that women have not simply been passive receivers of the consequences of the forces of global capitalism, but that they have had a profound, active impact on social transformation in China.

Guoguang Wu is Professor of Political Science, Professor of History, and Chair in China and Asia-Pacific Relations at University of Victoria, Canada Yuan Feng is Professor of Women’s Studies and Founding Director of the Center for Women’s Studies at Shantou University, China. Helen Lansdowne is Associate Director of the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives at University of Victoria, Canada.

1. Introduction, by Guoguang Wu and Helen Lansdowne

Part I. Chinese Feminisms in Multiple Contexts

2. Funü in the Gender Legacy of the Mao Era and Contemporary Feminist Struggle in China, by Xin Huang

3. The Cultural Politics of Women’s Human Rights in Transnational China: From the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women to Now, by Sophia Woodman

4. Why Did Liberal Feminism Lead the Way When Western Feminisms Travelled to China in the 1980s-1990s? by Feng Xu

Part II. Gender Equalities in Political Economy

5. We Planted All These Trees Decades Ago: Elder Activism against Devaluing Women’s Labour, by Shuxuan Zhou

6. Claiming Land Rights for Rural Women: Analyses Based on 180 Lawsuits, by Jianmei Guo and Xiaoquan Lv

7. Equality and the Chinese Pursuit of Socialist Feminism, by Lanyan Chen

Part III. Gender Awareness on Peripheries

8. How Can a Radical Sexual Play Work in a ‘Conservative’ Community? The Adaptation and Recreation of The Vagina Monologues in China, by Qianting Ke

9. Radical Feminist Disruption in China: A Case of Topless for the 2012 Anti-Domestic Law Petition, by Di Wang

10. Unmarried Mothers in China and Their Feminist Resistance: Demanding Legal Rights or Social Understanding? by Qian Liu

Part IV. Chinese Feminists in Action

11. Women Levering the State in a Glocal China: From the Rise of Feminist NGOs to the Legislation of Anti-Domestic Violence, by Yuan Feng

12. From Margin to Centre: Feminist Mobilizations in Digital China, by Jing Xiong

13. Engaging Boys and Girls for Fighting Gender-based Violence: Action Research of School-based Violence Prevention Project in China, by Xiying Wang

Conclusion

14. Rebelling against Mao, Market, and Patriarchy: The Gender Dynamics of China’s Social Transformation, by Guoguang Wu and Yuan Feng

Erscheinungsdatum	01.07.2020
Reihe/Serie	China Policy Series
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-367-58336-4 / 0367583364
ISBN-13	978-0-367-58336-1 / 9780367583361
Zustand	Neuware