1st Edition

Chinese Feminism Faces Globalization

By Sharon Wesoky Copyright 2002
    318 Pages
    by Routledge

    316 Pages
    by Routledge

    Examining Chinese domestic as well as international circumstances surrounding the emergence of an independent women's movement in Beijing in the 1990s, this book seeks to explain how such a movement could have arisen after the repression of student activists in Tiananmen Square in 1989. It also places this emergence in the context of theories of social movements, civil society and globalization.

    Acknowledgments
    Table of Contents
    List of Tables
    List of Figures
    Preface
    Part I.-Symbiosis and Social Movements
    Chapter One: State Legitimacy, Social Organization, and Concepts of Symbiosis
    Chapter Two: Social Movements and Globalization
    Part II.-The Beijing Women's Movement
    Chapter Three: The Politics of Beijing Women's Organizing in the 1990s
    Chapter Four: Beijing Activists: The Emergence of Feminist Identities
    Part III.-The Emergence of a Symbiotic Women's Movement in the 1990s: Opportunities, Mobilization, and Framing
    Chpater Five: Political and Economic Opportunities
    Chpater Six: The Emergence of NGO's in the Women's Movement
    Chapter Seven: Framing in the Chinese Women's Movement
    Part IV.-Conclusions and Bibliography
    Chapter Eight: Conclusions
    Bibliography

    Biography

    Wesoky, Sharon