Chinese feminism faces globalization

East Asia History, Politics, Sociology, Culture......Page 1
Chinese Feminism Faces Globalization......Page 3
Contents......Page 6
LIST OF FIGURES......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
PART I SYMBIOSIS AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS......Page 11
CHAPTER ONE State Legitimacy, Social Organization, and Concepts of Symbiosis......Page 12
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN THE CHINESE CONTEXT......Page 14
LEGITIMACY OF THE CHINESE PARTY-STATE......Page 17
ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES T O STATE-SOCIETY RELATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA......Page 20
Civil Society......Page 21
Corporatism......Page 23
Concertation and the Case of Mexico......Page 26
The "Velvet Prison"......Page 28
CONCEPTS OF "SYMBIOSIS"......Page 29
RESEARCH AND OUTLINE OF CHAPTERS......Page 33
Notes......Page 36
PART II The Beijing Women's Movement......Page 62
CHAPTER TWO Social Movements and Globalization......Page 38
POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES......Page 40
"Economic Opportunity"......Page 42
Globalization Processes and Movement Opportunities......Page 43
FRAMING AND "GLOBAL CULTURE"......Page 47
Globalization of Culture and Framing......Page 50
MOBILIZING STRUCTURES AND "GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY"......Page 54
Globalization and Society......Page 55
CONCLUSIONS......Page 60
NOTES......Page 61
CHAPTER THREE The Politics of Beijing Women's Organizing in the 1990s......Page 63
Women's Inequality......Page 64
The Marxist/Maoist Discourse on Women......Page 67
Relationship to State-Led Liberation......Page 69
Changes in the 1990s......Page 71
Relationships between Forms of Organizing......Page 72
Influence of International Discourses......Page 74
Proposed Measures......Page 75
The China Capital Women Journalists' Association......Page 77
Women's Research Institute/Women's Hotline......Page 80
Women's Studies Center, People's University......Page 82
CONCLUSIONS......Page 83
NOTES......Page 84
CHAPTER FOUR Beijing Activists: The Emergence of Feminist Identities......Page 86
PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ACTIVISTS......Page 88
Becoming Women's Movement Activists......Page 91
International Contributors to Activism......Page 99
Personal Effects of Activism......Page 101
"Feminism" in the Chinese Context......Page 106
Activists' Introductions to Feminism......Page 108
Translating "Feminismn-Nuquanzhuyi or Nuxingzhuyi?......Page 111
Activists as "Feminists"......Page 114
CONCLUSIONS......Page 115
NOTES......Page 116
PART III The Emergence of a Symbiotic Women's Movement in the 1990s: Opportunities, Mobilization and Framing......Page 118
PHASES OF DEVELOPMENT IN THE POST-MA0 CHINESE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT......Page 119
Ideas of "Civil Society" and Political Opportunity Structure......Page 125
Endogenous Political Opportunities for the Women's Movement......Page 127
Exogenous Political Opportunities for the Women's Movement......Page 134
ENDOGENOUS AND EXOGENOUS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES......Page 143
Economic Reform and "Civil Society"......Page 144
Endogenous Economic Opportunities for the Women's Movement......Page 145
Exogenous Economic Opportunities for the Women's Movement......Page 152
CLOSING OPPORTUNITIES?......Page 157
NOTES......Page 161
Reform and Social Changes......Page 164
Exogenous Aspects of Mobilizing Structures......Page 166
Supervisory Work Units......Page 167
Role Played by Institutional Connections......Page 170
Networks among Women's Activists......Page 172
tions that I now turn. Intra- and Inter-group Relations......Page 174
THE GLOBAL MEETS THE LOCAL: "NGOS" AND THE CHINESE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT......Page 177
T h e Women's Federation a s a n "NGO"?......Page 178
To Be an NGO......Page 180
CONCLUSIONS......Page 188
NOTES......Page 189
REFORM AND CULTURAL CHANGES......Page 190
THE CREATION OF COLLECTIVE IDENTITY IN THE BEIJING WOMEN'S MOVEMENT......Page 191
VIEWS OF GLOBAL "COMMON PROBLEMS"......Page 197
Channels of Influence......Page 201
New Issues in the Chinese Women's Movement......Page 205
NOTES......Page 237
PART IV Conclusions......Page 241
SYMBIOTIC SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE......Page 242
GLOBALIZATION AND DOMESTIC SOCIAL MOVEMENT OPPORTUNITIES......Page 246
A PERSISTING SOCIAL MOVEMENT? THE CONTEMPORARY CHINESE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT AND IMPLICATIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH......Page 249
Bibliography......Page 251