Format:
1 Online-Ressource (445 p)
ISBN:
9780520292284
Content:
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 People's 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 China's film industry were working to actively create new cinematic heroines, and how the
Content:
Imprint -- Subvention -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: The Women's Federation and the CCP -- 1 Feminist Contentions in Socialist State Formation: A Case Study of the Shanghai Women's Federation -- 2 The Political Perils in 1957: Struggles over "Women's Liberation" -- 3 Creating a Feminist Cultural Front: Women of China -- 4 When a Maoist "Class" Intersected Gender -- Part Two: From Feminist Revolution of Culture to the Cultural Revolution
Content:
5 Chen Bo'er and the Feminist Paradigm of Socialist Film -- 6 Fashioning Socialist Visual Culture: Xia Yan and the New Culture Heritage -- 7 The Cultural Origins of the Cultural Revolution -- 8 The Iron Girls: Gender and Class in Cultural Representations -- Conclusion: Socialist State Feminism and Its Legacies in Capitalist China -- Notes -- Glossary -- List of Interviews -- Bibliography -- Index
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Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
9780520965867
Additional Edition:
Print version Zheng, Wang Finding Women in the State : A Socialist Feminist Revolution in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1964 Berkerley, CA : University of California Press,c2016 9780520292284
Language:
English
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