Gender, Politics, and Democracy

Louise Edwards is Professor of China Studies at the Institute for International Studies, University of Technology Sydney and Convenor of the Australian Research Council's Asia Pacific Futures Research Network. Her publications include Men and Women in Qing China, and Women's Suffrage in Asia (2004), co-edited with Mina Roces.

• i. Introduction I 2. Anti-Qing Rebels: Conceiving Women's Citizenship, 1898-191z 31 3. Women's Search for Political Equality in the New Republic, 1912-1914 65 4. Suffrage and Provincial Constitutions: Building a New Culture, 1919-1923 103 5. Nationalists, Communists, and the National Assembly Movement, 1924-1926 139 6. Feminists in the Nanjing Decade, 1927-1936 168 7. Realizing the Power of Difference: Quotas, War, and Elections, 1936-1948 195

"Edwards artfully explores efforts by Chinese Women to achieve political equality in the early 20th century.—S. C. Hart, Choice.