Feminism and Socialism in China (Routledge Revivals)
Title | Feminism and Socialism in China (Routledge Revivals) PDF eBook |
Author | Elisabeth Croll |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 375 |
Release | 2013-01-11 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 1136337318 |
First published in 1978, Feminism and Socialism in China explores the inter-relationship of feminism and socialism and the contribution of each towards the redefinition of the role and status of women in China. In her history of the women’s movement in China from the late nineteenth century onwards, Professor Croll provides an opportunity to study its construction, its ideological and structural development over a number of decades, and its often ambiguous relationship with a parallel movement to establish socialism. Based on a variety of material including eye witness accounts, the author examines a wide range of fundamental issues, including women’s class and oppression, the relation of women’s solidarity groups to class organisations, reproduction and the accommodation of domestic labour, women in the labour process, and the relationship between women’s participation in social production and their access to and control of political and economic resources. The book includes excerpts from studies of village and communal life, documents of the women’s movement and interviews with members of the movement.
Feminism and Socialism in China
Title | Feminism and Socialism in China PDF eBook |
Author | Elisabeth J. Croll |
Publisher | |
Pages | 363 |
Release | 1978 |
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Women, Family and the Chinese Socialist State, 1950-2010
Title | Women, Family and the Chinese Socialist State, 1950-2010 PDF eBook |
Author | Xiaofei Kang |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2019-11-11 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9004415939 |
A rare window for the English speaking world to learn how scholars in China understand and interpret central issues pertaining to women and family from the founding of the People’s Republic to the reform era.
Finding Women in the State
Title | Finding Women in the State PDF eBook |
Author | Wang Zheng |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 2016-11-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520292286 |
Finding Women in the State is a provocative hidden history of socialist state feminists maneuvering behind the scenes at the core of the Chinese Communist Party. These women worked to advance gender and class equality in the early PeopleÕs Republic and fought to transform sexist norms and practices, all while facing fierce opposition from a male-dominated CCP leadership from the Party Central to the local government. Wang Zheng extends this investigation to the cultural realm, showing how feminists within ChinaÕs film industry were working to actively create new cinematic heroines, and how they continued a New Culture anti-patriarchy heritage in socialist film production. This book illuminates not only the different visions of revolutionary transformation but also the dense entanglements among those in the top echelon of the party. Wang discusses the causes for failure of ChinaÕs socialist revolution and raises fundamental questions about male dominance in social movements that aim to pursue social justice and equality. This is the first book engendering the PRC high politics and has important theoretical and methodological implications for scholars and students working in gender studies as well as China studies.
Feminism and Socialism in China
Title | Feminism and Socialism in China PDF eBook |
Author | Elisabeth Croll |
Publisher | Schocken |
Pages | 363 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780805206579 |
Finding Women in the State
Title | Finding Women in the State PDF eBook |
Author | Zheng Wang |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520292294 |
Feminist contentions in socialist state formation: a case study of the Shanghai Women's Federation -- The political perils in 1957: struggles over "women's liberation"--Creating a socialist feminist cultural front: women of China -- When a Maoist "class" intersected gender -- Chen Bo'er and the feminist paradigm of socialist film -- Fashioning socialist visual culture: Xia Yan and the new culture heritage -- The cultural origins of the Cultural Revolution -- The Iron Girls: gender and class in cultural representations -- Conclusion: socialist state feminism and its legacies in capitalist China
Women, the Family, and Peasant Revolution in China
Title | Women, the Family, and Peasant Revolution in China PDF eBook |
Author | Kay Ann Johnson |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2009-02-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0226401944 |
Kay Ann Johnson provides much-needed information about women and gender equality under Communist leadership. She contends that, although the Chinese Communist Party has always ostensibly favored women's rights and family reform, it has rarely pushed for such reforms. In reality, its policies often have reinforced the traditional role of women to further the Party's predominant economic and military aims. Johnson's primary focus is on reforms of marriage and family because traditional marriage, family, and kinship practices have had the greatest influence in defining and shaping women's place in Chinese society. Conversant with current theory in political science, anthropology, and Marxist and feminist analysis, Johnson writes with clarity and discernment free of dogma. Her discussions of family reform ultimately provide insights into the Chinese government's concern with decreasing the national birth rate, which has become a top priority. Johnson's predictions of a coming crisis in population control are borne out by the recent increase in female infanticide and the government abortion campaign.