Research Catalog

Title

Finding women in the state : a socialist feminist revolution in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1964 / Wang Zheng.

Author

Wang, Zheng, 1952-

Publication

• Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Description

xv, 380 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"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 they continued a New Culture anti-patriarchy heritage in socialist film production. This book illuminates not only the different visions of revolutionary transformation but also the dense entanglements among those in the top echelon of the party. Wang discusses the causes for failure of China's socialist revolution and raises fundamental questions about male dominance in social movements that aim to pursue social justice and equality. This is the first book engendering the PRC high politics and has important theoretical and methodological implications for scholars and students working in gender studies as well China studies"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• 1949-1976
• Women > China > Social conditions
• Feminism > Political aspects > History > China > 1949-1976
• Motion pictures > Social aspects > History > China > 1949-1976
• Socialism and motion pictures > China > History > 1949-1976
• Feminism > Political aspects
• Motion pictures > Social aspects
• Socialism and motion pictures
• Women > Social conditions
• China

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Feminist contentions in socialist state formation: a case study of the Shanghai Women's Federation -- The political perils in 1957: struggles over "women's liberation" -- Creating a socialist feminist cultural front: women of China -- When a Maoist "class" intersected gender -- Chen Bo'er and the feminist paradigm of socialist film -- Fashioning socialist visual culture: Xia Yan and the new culture heritage -- The cultural origins of the Cultural Revolution -- The Iron Girls: gender and class in cultural representations -- Conclusion: socialist state feminism and its legacies in capitalist China.

Call Number

JFE 17-412

ISBN

• 9780520292284
• 0520292286
• 9780520292291
• 0520292294

LCCN

2016015706

OCLC

946579480

Author

Wang, Zheng, 1952- author.

Title

Finding women in the state : a socialist feminist revolution in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1964 / Wang Zheng.

Publisher

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1949-1976

Other Form:

Online version: Wang, Zheng, 1952- author. Finding women in the state Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] 9780520965867 (DLC) 2016017275

Research Call Number

JFE 17-412