ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|54 pages
Chinese feminisms in multiple contexts
chapter 3|18 pages
The cultural politics of women’s China human rights in transnational China
part II|54 pages
Gender equalities in political economy
chapter 5|18 pages
We planted all these trees decades ago
part III|64 pages
Gender awareness on peripheries
chapter 8|21 pages
How can a radical sexual play work in a “conservative” community?
chapter 9|22 pages
Radical feminist disruption in China
chapter 10|19 pages
Unmarried mothers in China and their feminist resistance
part IV|61 pages
Chinese feminists in action
chapter 11|28 pages
Women levering the state in a glocal China
chapter 13|13 pages
Engaging boys and girls for fighting gender-based violence
part |27 pages
Conclusion