Examining Chinese domestic as well as international circumstances surrounding the emergence of an independent women's movement in Beijing in the 1990s, this book seeks to explain how such a movement could have arisen after the repression of student activists in Tiananmen Square in 1989. It also places this emergence in the context of theories of social movements, civil society and globalization.
AcknowledgmentsTable of ContentsList of TablesList of FiguresPrefacePart I.-Symbiosis and Social MovementsChapter One: State Legitimacy, Social Organization, and Concepts of SymbiosisChapter Two: Social Movements and GlobalizationPart II.-The Beijing Women's MovementChapter Three: The Politics of Beijing Women's Organizing in the 1990sChapter Four: Beijing Activists: The Emergence of Feminist IdentitiesPart III.-The Emergence of a Symbiotic Women's Movement in the 1990s: Opportunities, Mobilization, and FramingChpater Five: Political and Economic OpportunitiesChpater Six: The Emergence of NGO's in the Women's MovementChapter Seven: Framing in the Chinese Women's MovementPart IV.-Conclusions and BibliographyChapter Eight: ConclusionsBibliography