Engendering the Chinese Revolution: Radical Women, Communist Politics, and Mass Movements in the 1920s / Edition 1

by Christina Kelley Gilmartin

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520203464
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	11/01/1995
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	302
Sales rank:	867,148
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

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).

Table of Contents

MAPS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTE ON ROMANIZATION
INTRODUCTION

PART I: GENDER IN THE FORMATION OF A COMMUNIST BODY POLITIC, 1920-1925
In a Different Voice: Male Communist Rhetoric on Women's Emancipation
Tentative Programmatic Beginnings: Wang Huiwu's Leadership
Xiang Jingyu's Dilemma
Inside the Party

PART II: THE POLITICS OF GENDER IN THE NATIONAL
REVOLUTION, 1925-1927
May Thirtieth Revolutionary Upsurge
Guangdong Mass Women's Movement
On the Verge of Revolutionary Gender Transformations

CONCLUSION AND CONSEQUENCES
APPENDIX I: TABLE OF COMMUNIST-SPONSORED MASS
WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS
APPENDIX 2: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
NOTES
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
 

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