ABSTRACT
The multiple paths of the pathfinders’ journeys of becoming, discussed briefly in Chapter 4, well illustrate how feminist consciousness emerged and took form in the lives of the thirty-one Taiwanese scholars featured in this study. As we learned in previous chapters, structural opportunities largely opened up in Tawan after the decline of the authoritarian regime in 1987, and, particularly from that time on, feminist consciousness emerged and began to proliferate. Moreover, besides the differences reflected in their ages, each pathfinder’s personal and social transformation, strategies of action, exploration of new identities, and pursuit of scholarly interests in women’s studies varied to some extent depending on how she perceived structural opportunities and the degree to which she identified with feminism.
