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Gender, Politics, and Democracy: Women’s Suffrage in China

By Louise Edwards

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9780804768399
DOI
10.1515/9780804768399
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (23412151 bytes)
Pages
352\348
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 23:00:25

Description

This is the first exploration of women’s campaigns to gain equal rights to political participation in China. The dynamic and successful struggle for suffrage rights waged by Chinese women activists through the first half of the twentieth century challenged fundamental and centuries-old principles of political power. By demanding a public political voice for women, the activists promoted new conceptions of democratic representation for the entire political structure, not simply for women. Their movement created the space in which gendered codes of virtue would be radically transformed for both men and women.

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