1st Edition
Chinese Women Organizing Cadres, Feminists, Muslims, Queers
360 Pages
by
Routledge
360 Pages
by
Routledge
360 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the process of helping women to help themselves, female activists have assumed a decisive role in negotiating social and political transformations in Chinese society. This is the first book that describes and analyzes the new phase of women's organizing in China, which started in the 1980s, and remains a vital force to the present day. The political and social changes taking place in... Read more
Part I Chinese Women Organizing In/Outside Introduction Part II Contextualizing and Transcending East–West Boundaries Part III Ethnic, Diaspora and Religious Perspectives Part IV NGO Discourse and Deconstructing the Women’s Federation Part V Pockets of Space Part VI Positioning Women’s Studies Part VII Post-workshop Reflections 255 Part VIII Lexicon of Chinese Women Organizing
Biography
Ping-Chun Hsiung Associate Professor,University of Toronto Maria Jaschok Research Associate, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, University of Oxford Cecilia Milwertz Research Fellow, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
