a socialist feminist revolution in the people's Republic of China, 1949-1964
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Zheng, Wang
- Publish Year
- 2017
- Shelfmark
- O AZ 1H 2017 - B
- Thesaurus
- feminisme, communisme, politieke participatie, vrouwbeelden, films, China, 1950-1959, 1960-1969, 20e eeuw
- Description
- This publication reveals the 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 opposition from a male-dominated CCP leadership from the Party Central to the local government. The author 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 they continued a New Culture anti-patriarchy heritage in socialist film production. Contents: I. 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 Socialist Feminist Cultural Front: Women of China: 4. When a Maoist “Class” Intersected Gender: II. From feminist revolution of culture to the cultural revolution: 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.