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Since the 1980s the women’s movement in China has developed into a new historical phase with the rise and activity of various forms of ‘popular’ women’s organizations. These organizations emerged when women began to organize to support vulnerable social groups, to create social change and to challenge gender-based inequalities in society. Their work included setting up telephone hotlines, offering free legal services, monitoring images of women in the media, organizing rural migrant women and many other activities. Prior to the emerg-ence of this self-initiated activity, China’s women’s movement was a party-led, top-down organization sarcastically dubbed a ‘move women’ movement. This is the first multi-group analysis to be made of this new wave of the Chinese women’s movement. The study introduces the origins and work of three important organizations – the Women’s Research Institute/Maple Women’s Psychological Counselling Centre, the Jinglun Family Centre and the Migrant Women’s Club – and describes the role played by these and other organizations in this new phase in the development of China’s women’s movement. This empirically grounded
study documents the rise of new forms of organizing, the debates among
activists, and the impact of their efforts in con-solidating the new
wave. Its emphasis is on how a social movement is organized as an
ongoing transformative process of knowledge and practice. Published
by NIAS Press |
