Engendering the Chinese Revolution

Radical Women, Communist Politics, and Mass Movements in the 1920s

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ID2891959
AuthorsPaul Bailey (0000-0002-4650-9668, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author)
Year1996
Volume69
Issue4
Pages570
Publication date1996-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeREVIEW
Review ofEngendering the Chinese Revolution: Radical Women, Communist Politics, and Mass Movements in the 1920s, Christina Kelley Gilmartin, 1995
VenuePacific Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0030-851X • E-ISSN: 1715-3379
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2761195
OpenAlexW2126036526
LanguageEN
Citations received1

Christina Kelley Gilmartin rewrites the history of gender politics in the 1920s with this compelling assessment of the impact of feminist ideals on the Chinese Communist Party during its formative years. For the first time, Gilmartin reveals the extent to which revolutionaries in the 1920s were committed to women's emancipation and the radical political efforts that were made to overcome women's subordination and to transform gender relations. Women activists whose experiences and achievements have been previously ignored are brought to life in this study, which illustrates how the Party functioned not only as a political organization but as a subculture for women as well. We learn about the intersection of the personal and political lives of male communists and how this affected their beliefs about women's emancipation. Gilmartin depicts with thorough and incisive scholarship how the Party formulated an ideological challenge to traditional gender relations while it also preserved aspects of those relationships in its organization

Communism · Emancipation · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Subordination (linguistics) · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law

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