Out to work: migration, gender, and the changing lives of rural women in contemporary China

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (03) ◽  
pp. 53-1561-53-1561
Keyword(s):  
Rural Women ◽  
Contemporary China

Varieties of Feminisms in Contemporary China: Local Reception and Reinvention of Liberal Feminism in Ford Foundation Projects

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 510-533
Author(s):  
R Yang
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Ford Foundation ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Cultural Conflicts ◽  
Liberal Feminism ◽  
Local Actors

Abstract This article explores how liberal feminism has been received and hybridized with local feminisms in post-socialist China. Based on interviews and documents from four Ford Foundation projects, the results show how local actors appropriated elements from three strands of feminism: liberal, socialist, and cultural. Conflicts among these strands were reconciled by de-emphasizing the structural origins of gender inequality and putting impetus for change on individual women. The human rights-based understandings of gender equality are thereby converted into women’s obligation to improve their “quality” and exercise their legal rights, which ignores intersectional disadvantages confronting rural women.

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