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Rematerialising Chinese feminism

Socialist Memories and New Problematics

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ID5083367
AuthorsYanping Ni (0000-0001-9110-0047, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume138
Issue1
Pages68-83
Publication date2024-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/01417789241292621
OpenAlexW4405526785
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited33

This article examines a theoretical strand that has emerged in the past decade in mainland China. The strand, tentatively called 'critical socialist feminism' (CSF), is characterised by its dedication to criticising mainstream liberal feminism, recuperating Marxist critiques of the political economy and revisiting the country's socialist memories. Yet it so far has remained marginal and has yet to resonate with newer generations of feminist ideas and practices. This article seeks to reframe CSF into a flexible analytical framework that will be of critical relevance to our understanding of the situation facing women in contemporary China. Following ethnographic and historical reflections on Chinese feminism and its contestations, three problematics are offered to expand CSF's theoretical capacity: 1) the necessity to rematerialise Chinese feminism, 2) the ambiguous relationship between Chinese feminists and the Chinese state and 3) the crucial and critical imperative to diversify Chinese feminist voices

China · Cognitive reframing · Feminism · Mainland China · Mainstream · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law

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