Gender Dynamics, Feminist Activism and Social Transformation in China

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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. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Copyright Contents List of illustrations Notes on contributors Acknowledgments 1 Introduction PART I Chinese feminisms in multiple contexts 2 Funü in the gender legacy of the Mao era and contemporary feminist struggle in China 3 The cultural politics of women’s human rights in transnational China: from the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women to now 4 Why did liberal feminism lead the way when Western feminisms travelled to China in the 1980s–1990s? PART II Gender equalities in political economy 5 We planted all these trees decades ago: elder activism against devaluing women’s labour 6 Claiming land rights for rural women: analyses based on 180 lawsuits 7 Equality and the Chinese pursuit of socialist feminism 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 9 Radical feminist disruption in China: a case of topless for the 2012 anti-­domestic law petition 10 Unmarried mothers in China and their feminist resistance: demanding legal rights or social understanding? PART IV Chinese feminists in action 11 Women levering the state in a glocal China: from the rise of feminist NGOs to the legislation on anti-­domestic violence 12 From margin to centre: feminist mobilizations in digital China 13 Engaging boys and girls for fighting gender-based violence: action research of school-­based violence prevention project in China Conclusion 14 Rebelling against Mao, market, and patriarchy: the gender dynamics of China’s social transformation Index