ABSTRACT
The narratives and analysis of the pathfinders’ lives and actions in Chapter 4, Chapter 5, and Chapter 6 have made it clear how far these scholars have transformed themselves in the process of becoming feminists, or at least pro-feminist, in Taiwan’s academic world. The transformations in the life courses of the pathfinders have provided the framework within which contemporary women’s studies and feminist scholarship could come into being in Taiwan. The pathfinders have carried out and promoted the grounded feminist action needed to reconstruct women’s subjectivity in Taiwanese social contexts. This reconstruction has involved their learning to conceptualize and teach on the ways in which Taiwanese women have been, and largely continue to be, an oppressed group. It has also involved organized action to promote women’s rights through their participating in the local and global women’s movements and producing knowledge on and for women.
