Development of Chinese Women's NGOs since the 1995 World Women's Conference
Author: BAI Guimei
Publisher: Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher
Published: 2016-06-27
Total Pages: 4
ISBN-13: 8283480367
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Chinese Women Organizing
Author: Ping-Chun Hsiung
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-05-26
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 100018482X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the process of helping women to help themselves, female activists have assumed a decisive role in negotiating social and political transformations in Chinese society. This is the first book that describes and analyzes the new phase of women's organizing in China, which started in the 1980s, and remains a vital force to the present day. The political and social changes taking place in contemporary Chinese society have, surprisingly, received scant attention. This volume enriches our understanding of the working of grassroots democracy in China by exploring women's popular organizing activities and their interaction with party-state institutions. By subjecting these activities to both empirical enquiry and theoretical scrutiny, a rigorous analysis of the exchange, dialogue, negotiation and transformation among and within three groups of political actors - popular women's groups, religious groups and the All China Women's Federation - is concisely presented to the reader. This book will be of tremendous interest to students of Chinese Studies, Political Science and Gender Studies alike.
Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics
Author: Ping Zhu
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2021-12-28
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 0815655266
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe year 1995, when the Fourth World Conference on Women was held in Beijing, marks a historical milestone in the development of the Chinese feminist movement. In the decades that followed, three distinct trends emerged: first, there was a rise in feminist NGOs in mainland China and a surfacing of LGBTQ movements; second, social and economic developments nurtured new female agency, creating a vibrant, women-oriented cultural milieu in China; third, in response to ethnocentric Western feminism, some Chinese feminist scholars and activists recuperated the legacies of socialist China’s state feminism and gender policies in a new millennium. These trends have brought Chinese women unprecedented choices, resources, opportunities, pitfalls, challenges, and even crises. In this timely volume, Zhu and Xiao offer an examination of the ways in which Chinese feminist ideas have developed since the mid-1990s. By juxtaposing the plural "feminisms" with "Chinese characteristics," they both underline the importance of integrating Chinese culture, history, and tradition in the discussions of Chinese feminisms, and, stress the difference between the plethora of contemporary Chinese feminisms and the singular state feminism. The twelve chapters in this interdisciplinary collection address the theme of feminisms with Chinese characteristics from different perspectives rendered from lived experiences, historical reflections, theoretical ruminations, and cultural and sociopolitical critiques, painting a panoramic picture of Chinese feminisms in the age of globalization.
Platform for Action and the Beijing Declaration
Author: DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 0788128442
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains the complete text of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. It also includes the statement of U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, read at the conclusion of the 4th World Conference on Women. Covers: women and poverty; education and training of women; women and health; violence against women; women and armed conflict; women and the economy; women in power and decision-making; institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women; human rights of women; women and the media; women and the environment; and the girl-child.
NGOs in China and Europe
Author: Yuwen Li
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-06
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 1317087615
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume presents a comparison of the experiences of NGOs in China and Europe. The chapters on China contain the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of various types of NGOs currently active in the country. The contributions on foreign NGOs in China, non-governmental think tanks, public interest legal organizations, labour related NGOs and charity organizations, are the first in English to discuss successful experiences as well as the difficulties they face in the post-Mao era. The European studies draw examples from countries where the experiences of NGOs are at various stages of development. The section on NGOs in Central and Eastern Europe examines the rapid expansion of civil society and their pivotal role in promoting political change and building democracy in a transitional society, as well as the challenges they confront in advancing a strong civil society. Those chapters on NGOs' experiences in Western European countries, especially in the Netherlands and the UK, provide insightful information and examination of the most contentious issues concerning NGOs' accountability, governance and relationship with the government.
The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History
Author: Wilma Pearl Mankiller
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 728
ISBN-13: 9780395671733
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains articles on fashion and style, household workers, images of women, jazz and blues, maternity homes, Native American women, Phillis Wheatley, homes, picture brides, single women, and teaching.
Associations and the Chinese State: Contested Spaces
Author: Jonathan Unger
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-12-18
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1317476336
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat role do Chinese popular associations play in the expansion of civil society and democratization? Under Mao few associations were permitted to exist, while today over 200,000 associations are officially recognized. Are they important foundations of civil society, or vehicles for state corporatism and control? In this book leading China specialists examine an interesting range of associations, from business associations to trade unions, to urban homeowners associations, women's groups against domestic violence, and rural NGOs that develop anti-poverty programs. The contributors find different important trends underway in different parts of China's economy and society. Their findings are nuanced, insightful - and often not what might be expected.
China's Journey Toward the Rule of Law
Author: Cai Dingjian
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9004184198
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Thirty years since China s reform and opening have been very eventful for the country s legal reforms, and this volume presents a multi-disciplinary look at the current scholarship going on in China on the subject. The articles have been translated into English to assist scholars worldwide in understanding China s recent legal history and also to help familiarize them with the currents of contemporary Chinese scholarship. Individual subjects include commercial law, the evolving relationship between the Chinese government and its citizens, administrative law and criminal justice. There are also chapters on newly emerging areas of the law that are crucial to China s future development, such as the chapters on environmental law and intellectual property. The volume also includes a chapter on legal education and the legal profession, judicial reform and the development of law to protect the rights of the disadvantaged.
Translation and Travelling Theory
Author: Dongchao Min
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-07-15
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1317007123
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResearch has shown that feminist theory has flowed far more easily from North to South and from West to East, wheras travel in other directions has proved almost non-existent. While the hegemony of US feminist theory has been challenged in Europe, for example, there remain many ‘invisible’ discursive trajectories that link the development of feminist theories and movements across the world. This book brings together and engages with theories of globalisation, transnational feminism, travelling theory and cultural translation, exploring the travelling routes of feminist theory and practice to China over recent decades. With attention to the crucial questions of why and how knowledge travels or fails to travel, the forms that it takes and by whom it is sent, received, understood, translated, or even refused, the author examines the development and activities of different groups of women and women’s organisations in China, thus developing an alternative form of travelling theory. A study of the cross-cultural translation of knowledge and practices that occur or fail to occur when different cultures interact, and their impact, this book will appeal to scholars of gender studies, sociology and cultural studies with interests in feminist thought and the travel and production of knowledge.
The Globalization of World Politics
Author: John Baylis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 676
ISBN-13: 0199569096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow in its fifth edition, this title has been fully revised and updated in the light of recent developments in world politics, with new chapters on the changing nature of war, human security, and international ethics.
