Engendering the Chinese Revolution: Radical Women, Communist Politics, and Mass Movements in the 1920s - Softcover

Gilmartin, Christina Kelley Kelley

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9780520203464: Engendering the Chinese Revolution: Radical Women, Communist Politics, and Mass Movements in the 1920s
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ISBN 10: 0520203461 ISBN 13: 9780520203464
Publisher: University of California Press, 1995

Synopsis

Christina Kelley Gilmartin rewrites the history of gender politics in the 1920s with this compelling assessment of the impact of feminist ideals on the Chinese Communist Party during its formative years. For the first time, Gilmartin reveals the extent to which revolutionaries in the 1920s were committed to women's emancipation and the radical political efforts that were made to overcome women's subordination and to transform gender relations.

Women activists whose experiences and achievements have been previously ignored are brought to life in this study, which illustrates how the Party functioned not only as a political organization but as a subculture for women as well. We learn about the intersection of the personal and political lives of male communists and how this affected their beliefs about women's emancipation. Gilmartin depicts with thorough and incisive scholarship how the Party formulated an ideological challenge to traditional gender relations while it also preserved aspects of those relationships in its organization.

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About the Author

Christina Kelley Gilmartin is Assistant Professor of History at Northeastern University. She is the coeditor of Engendering China: Women, Culture, and the State (1994).

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"A long-overdue rewriting of gender politics in 1920s China. Gilmartin brings women activists alive."―Emily Honig, author of Sisters and Strangers

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"A long-overdue rewriting of gender politics in 1920s China. Gilmartin brings women activists alive." Emily Honig, author of Sisters and Strangers

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Publisher
University of California Press
Publication date
1995
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0520203461
ISBN 13 
9780520203464
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
328
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