Conclusion

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wang Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Women's Movement ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Male Dominance ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Socialist Revolution ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Political Force ◽  
Socialist State ◽  
Cyber Space ◽  
Feminist Revolution

Summarizing socialist state feminists’ struggles in the early PRC, this chapterpoints out thatwithout a conscious feminist transformation of the entrenchedmale supremacisthierarchical mentality,the CCP male leaders’ pursuit of a Communist dream was inherently flawed, and eventually redirected by an inner masculinist drive to reproduce male dominance. Analyses of causes of the failure of a socialist revolution are followed with an examination of socialist state feminist legacies in contemporary China. The chapter ends with a discussion of transformed political fields of Chinese feminism in the age of global capitalism whenthe ACWFno longercommands a unified women’s movement and is not in the position to continue a socialist feminist revolution, instead embracing a UN mandate of gender mainstreaming;and growing numbers of young feminists operate outside the official system via the cyber space interacting with feminists transnationally, rising as a dynamic political force challenging male dominance.

Finding Women in the State

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wang Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Male Dominance ◽  
Socialist Revolution ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
State Feminism ◽  
Socialist State ◽  
Class Hierarchies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Party State

This first book engendering the PRC high politics narrates a hidden history of socialist state formation in which feminists in the CCP operated in a politics of concealment in order to enact their feminist visions of a socialist stateand to launch a feminist revolutiontransforming a patriarchal culture. Analyzing archival sourcesand interviews with a double-lens of gender and class, the book illuminates a gender line of struggle in the CCP, debunks a conceptualization of a monolithic patriarchal party/state that paradoxically supported gender equality, and demonstrates state feminists’ contentions in diverse fields and fierce opposition from a male-dominated CCP leadership from the Party Central to the local government. Socialist cultural production is also examined to demonstrate how feminist leaders consciously created a new paradigm of visual representation of heroines and continued a New Culture anti-patriarchy heritage in socialist film production. The feminist endeavors in the cultural realm aiming to transform gender and class hierarchies are discussedin conjunction with an examination of the dense entanglements among those in the top echelon of the Party and an analysis of how the politicalbeing saturated withthe personal dynamics. Discussing the causes for failure of China’s socialist revolution, the book raises fundamental questions about male dominance in social movements and political revolutions that aim to pursue social justice and equality. The book also scrutinizes post-socialist knowledge production that has operated in a politics of erasure of a history of socialist state feminism.

scholarly journals Feminist-Inspired NGO Activism in Contemporary China: Expanding the Inductive Approach in Qualitative Inquiry

2021 ◽  
pp. 107780042110146
Author(s):  
Ping-Chun Hsiung
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Nongovernmental Organization ◽  
Shaanxi Province ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Village Elections ◽  
Inductive Approach ◽  
Rural Governance

This article analyzes feminist praxis and nongovernmental organization (NGO) activism in the Heyang Project, which endeavored to increase women’s political participation in rural governance through village elections in Shaanxi Province, China (2004–2013). It presents an NGO-centered framework to challenge the Western and state-centered lenses that have been used to frame and assess the development of NGOs, civil society, and the women’s movement in China. I disrupt the exclusive power upheld by the researcher by inserting the interpretative voices of the researched. I demonstrate that the Project transcends the predicament of a binary conceptualization. The NGO successfully interweaves and juxtaposes seemly contradictory forces.

scholarly journals Portrayal of Free Spirit in Adrienne Rich’s Aunt Jennifer’s Tiger and Alice Walker’s Meridian

HARIDRA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (01) ◽  
pp. 42-44
Author(s):  
Sharda Singh
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Toni Morrison ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Alice Walker ◽  
Male Dominance ◽  
Adrienne Rich ◽  
Maya Angelou ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Free Spirit

The works of women writers of USA have become increasingly visible in the academy especially since 1970s because of their active involvement in contemporary women’s movement. Writers like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker and poets like Maya Angelou and Adrienne Rich and others have been strongly greeted for their ideologies. Undoubtedly, their works echo strong resistance against racism, patriarchism and militarism. The present paper highlights the remedy of the various maladies like male dominance, subordinated identity and submissive life. It is said that ‘every action has reaction’ and these writers believe that ‘”FORTUNE FAVOURS THE BRAVE”. So they have depicted the undaunted spirits among their female protagonists who fought bravely against the odds and eventually emerged victorious.

Exclusion of Women Beneath Patriarchal Enclaves in Participatory Irrigation Management in South India

2021 ◽  
pp. 097152152110304
Author(s):  
K. Gulam Dasthagir
Keyword(s):  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
South India ◽  
Irrigation System ◽  
Irrigation Management ◽  
Male Dominance ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Institutional Reforms ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Participatory Irrigation Management ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the impact of the policy initiative for Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM) on women’s membership and leadership in Water User Associations of Sathanur, Tamil Nadu. Evidence from this major irrigation system reveals male dominance in irrigation management not only due to denial of opportunity and entitlement to women but also gender bigotry in agrarian relations and deprival of women’s access to land. Thus in practice the neoliberal paradigm of institutional reforms in irrigation despite its manifest agenda of gender mainstreaming latently fortifies patriarchal enclave forfeiting inclusion, participation and representation of women in PIM.

scholarly journals Making Change From Below

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothy Smith
Keyword(s):  
Women's Movement ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Professional Organization ◽  
Government Organization ◽  
Global Capital ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations

<p>In this paper I've tried to spell out what I think we're confronting in attempting to make change in the context of global capitalism. I've used the notion of making change from below because the kind of government organization that made taking it over appear practicable has largely disappeared in a fragmentation of the state at many levels both within Canada and at international levels. Moreover the terrain of struggle has shifted from the directly physical to the contemporary text-mediated relations that pervade our societies. Right now we are also going through a rapid reorganization of governance replacing bureaucratic and professional organization with new managerial forms that subordinate both government and public institutions to the service of global capital. We can, however, find models of making change from below that have been effective. I look first to the Women's Movement, proposing that in addition to the specifics of its achievements, women in Canada are recognized and recognize ourselves as political subjects and agents. I then introduce more current examples of change initiated by non-governmental organizations, including unions. While specific objectives may be achieved, in the longer run these forms of organizing to make change are also important in building people's experience of acting and organizing, in extending connections among activists, and in grounding people's capacities to experience themselves as political subjects. </p>

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