Gender Dynamics, Feminist Activism and 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 Professor of Women’s Studies and Founding Director of the Center for Women’s Studies at Shantou University, China. Helen Lansdowne is Associate Director of the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives at University of Victoria, Canada.

1. Introduction, by Guoguang Wu and Helen Lansdowne



Part I. Chinese Feminisms in Multiple Contexts



2. Funü in the Gender Legacy of the Mao Era and Contemporary Feminist Struggle in China, by Xin Huang



3. The Cultural Politics of Women’s Human Rights in Transnational China: From the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women to Now, by Sophia Woodman



4. Why Did Liberal Feminism Lead the Way When Western Feminisms Travelled to China in the 1980s-1990s? by Feng Xu



Part II. Gender Equalities in Political Economy



5. We Planted All These Trees Decades Ago: Elder Activism against Devaluing Women’s Labour, by Shuxuan Zhou



6. Claiming Land Rights for Rural Women: Analyses Based on 180 Lawsuits, by Jianmei Guo and Xiaoquan Lv



7. Equality and the Chinese Pursuit of Socialist Feminism, by Lanyan Chen



Part III. Gender Awareness on Peripheries



8. How Can a Radical Sexual Play Work in a ‘Conservative’ Community? The Adaptation and Recreation of The Vagina Monologues in China, by Qianting Ke



9. Radical Feminist Disruption in China: A Case of Topless for the 2012 Anti-Domestic Law Petition, by Di Wang



10. Unmarried Mothers in China and Their Feminist Resistance: Demanding Legal Rights or Social Understanding? by Qian Liu



Part IV. Chinese Feminists in Action



11. Women Levering the State in a Glocal China: From the Rise of Feminist NGOs to the Legislation of Anti-Domestic Violence, by Yuan Feng



12. From Margin to Centre: Feminist Mobilizations in Digital China, by Jing Xiong



13. Engaging Boys and Girls for Fighting Gender-based Violence: Action Research of School-based Violence Prevention Project in China, by Xiying Wang



Conclusion



14. Rebelling against Mao, Market, and Patriarchy: The Gender Dynamics of China’s Social Transformation, by Guoguang Wu and Yuan Feng