Gender Dynamics, Feminist Activism and Social Transformation in China
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 womens roles have changed as China has moved from state socialism to engagement with capitalist globalization, examines the growth of womens gender and sexual consciousness and social movements for womens rights, including for marginalized social and sex/gender groups, and discusses womens 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.
Guoguang Wu is Professor of Political Science, Professor of History, and Chair in China and Asia-Pacific Relations at University of Victoria, Canada
Yuan Feng is Founding Director of the Center for Womens Studies at Shantou University, China
Helen Lansdowne is Associate Director of the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives at University of Victoria, Canada
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Contents
GUOGUANG WU AND HELEN LANSDOWNE
PART I
Chinese feminisms in multiple contexts
XIN HUANG
SOPHIA WOODMAN
FENG XU
PART II
Gender equalities in political economy
SHUXUAN ZHOU
JIANMEI GUO AND XIAOQUAN LV
LANYAN CHEN
PART III
Gender awareness on peripheries
QIANTING KE
DI WANG
QIAN LIU
PART IV
Chinese feminists in action
YUAN FENG
JING XIONG
XIYING WANG
GUOGUANG WU AND YUAN FENG
Guide
Lanyan Chen Associate Professor of Social and Human Development, Nipissing University, Canada
Yuan Feng Founding Director of Weiping (Equality), Beijing, China, and, formerly, Founding Director and Professor of Center for Women Studies, Shantou University, China
Jianmei Guo Director, Beijing Qianqian Law Firm and, formerly, Director of the Center for Womens Law Studies and Legal Services, Peking University, China
Xin Huang Assistant Professor of Womens and Gender Studies, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA
Qianting Ke Professor of Literature, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Helen Lansdowne Associate Director of Center for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, University of Victoria, Canada
Qian Liu Ph.D. candidate in Law, University of Victoria, Canada
Xiaoquan Lv Executive Director, Beijing Qianqian Law Firm, China
Di Wang Ph.D. candidate in Sociology, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA
Xiying Wang Professor of Social Development and Public Policy, Beijing Normal University, China
Sophia Woodman Chancellors Fellow in Sociology, University of Edinburgh, UK
Guoguang Wu Professor of Political Science, Professor of History, and Chair in China and Asia-Pacific Relations, University of Victoria, Canada
Jing Xiong Co-founder of Xitao Womens Leadership Initiative, and former Executive Editor of Feminist Voices, Beijing, China
Feng Xu Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Victoria, Canada
Shuxuan Zhou Postdoctoral Researcher at Graduate School of East Asian Studies of Freie Universitt Berlin, Germany
This collection of essays is an outcome of a symposium held at the University of Victoria on April 78, 2017. The entire project was the brainchild of Guoguang Wu and Yuan Feng.
A Connection Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, awarded to Guoguang Wu as the sole applicant, financed the symposium. Yuan Feng invited most symposium papers. The Center for Asia-Pacific Initiatives (CAPI) of the University of Victoria (UVic), especially its then-Director Andrew Marton and its Associate Director Helen Lansdowne, provided support to the grant application. The China Program of CAPI organized the symposium.
The symposium was a success due to the contributions from all paper authors, discussants, panel chairs, and other participants. Yuan Feng delivered a keynote speech to the symposium, which was chaired by Helen Lansdowne. We as coeditors like to first and foremost thank all chapter contributors for their most indispensable input, and for their patience and cooperation during the long processes from writing a paper abstract for the SSHRC grant proposal through seemingly endless revisions to the finalization of the volume manuscript.
