Finding Women in the State

Download or read book Finding Women in the State written by Zheng Wang and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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