Chinese Women Organizing

Ping-Chun Hsiung Associate Professor,University of Toronto Maria Jaschok Research Associate, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, University of Oxford Cecilia Milwertz Research Fellow, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies

• Part I Chinese Women Organizing In/Outside Introduction Part II Contextualizing and Transcending East–West Boundaries Part III Ethnic, Diaspora and Religious Perspectives Part IV NGO Discourse and Deconstructing the Women’s Federation Part V Pockets of Space Part VI Positioning Women’s Studies Part VII Post-workshop Reflections 255 Part VIII Lexicon of Chinese Women Organizing

'This book breaks new ground in that it gives voice both to academics engaged in Chinese women's studies from both China and the West, and to activists working in Chinese NGOs. Very little has been published in English on the non-state women's movement in China, its strategies, activities and divisions, so this book usefully fills an obvious gap.'Delia Davin, University of Leeds'A substantial addition to the burgeoning scholarship on the new wave of women's organising in China, offering a more comprehensive treatment of the topic than available in English until now.'Intersections'The standard is high and the translators and editors have done an excellent job.'Chinese Women Organizing 'This book is the text for women organizing in China and the source for the present state and future direction of the women's movement and the ongoing research in to it.' The China Quarterly 'Chinese Women Organizing is a text that will be of interest not o