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Finding Women in the State

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Finding Women in the State

By Zheng Wang

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About the book

Finding Women in the State is a provocative hidden history of socialist state feminists maneuvering behind the scenes at the core of the Chinese Communist Party. These women worked to advance gender and class equality in the early People's Republic and fought to transform sexist norms and practices, all while facing fierce opposition from a male-dominated CCP leadership from the Party Central to the local government. Wang Zheng extends this investigation to the cultural realm, showing how femini...Show more

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9780520292291

Publisher

University of California Press

Published year

2016

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