Finding Women in the State

Wang Zheng is Professor of Women's Studies and History and Research Scientist at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories and the coeditor of From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society, Translating Feminisms in China, and Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction part one the women's federation and the ccp 1 * Feminist Contentions in Socialist State Formation: A Case Study of the Shanghai Women's Federation 2 * The Political Perils in 1957: Struggles over "Women's Liberation" 3 * Creating a Socialist Feminist Cultural Front: Women of China 4 * When a Maoist "Class" Intersected Gender part two from feminist revolution of culture to the cultural revolution 5 * Chen Bo'er and the Feminist Paradigm of Socialist Film 6 * Fashioning Socialist Visual Culture: Xia Yan and the New Culture Heritage 7 * The Cultural Origins of the Cultural Revolution 8 * The Iron Girls: Gender and Class in Cultural Representations Conclusion: Socialist State Feminism and Its Legacies in Capitalist China Notes Glossary List of Interviews Bibliography Index

"Finding Women in the State makes a significant intervention in the fields of modern Chinese history, gender history, and the history of socialism . . . Adds a nuanced reading of the inner contentiousness of cultural industries . . . Will be of great interest to historians of gender, of the revolution, and of the state."