Engendering the Chinese Revolution Radical Women Communist Politics and Mass Movements in the 1920s by Christina Kelley Gilmartin 9780520917200 0520917200

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• ISBN 10: 0520917200
• ISBN 13: 9780520917200
• Author: Christina Kelley Gilmartin 

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.

Table contents:

PART I Gender in the Formation of a Communist Body Politic, 1920-1925
CHAPTER I In a Different Voice
CHAPTER 2 Tentative Programmatic Beginnings
CHAPTER 3 Xiang Jingyu’s Dilemma
CHAPTER 4 Inside the Party
PART II The Politics of Gender in the National Revolution, 1925-1927
CHAPTER 5 May Thirtieth Revolutionary Upsurge
CHAPTER 6 Guangdong Mass Women’s Movement
CHAPTER 7 On the Verge of Revolutionary Gender Transformations

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