Women's movements in twentieth-century Taiwan

dc.contributor.author	Chang, Doris T.
dc.date.accessioned	2009-06-29T01:19:11Z
dc.date.available	2009-06-29T01:19:11Z
dc.date.issued	2009
dc.identifier.citation	Chang, Doris T. Women's movements in twentieth-century Taiwan. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2009. -- xi, 228 p.	en
dc.identifier.isbn	0252033957
dc.identifier.isbn	9780252033957
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10057/2045
dc.identifier.uri	http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/23enb2qm9780252033957.html
dc.description	Wichita State University Library owns a copy of this book (Call No.: HQ1777 .C43 2009)	en
dc.description.abstract	The first book in English to consider feminist movements and discourses in modern Taiwan This book is the first in English to consider women's movements and feminist discourses in twentieth-century Taiwan. Doris T. Chang examines the way in which Taiwanese women in the twentieth century selectively appropriated Western feminist theories to meet their needs in a modernizing Confucian culture. She illustrates the rise and fall of women's movements against the historical backdrop of the island's contested national identities, first vis-Ã -vis imperial Japan (1895-1945) and later with postwar China (1945-2000). In particular, during periods of soft authoritarianism in the Japanese colonial era and late twentieth century, autonomous women's movements emerged and operated within the political perimeters set by the authoritarian regimes. Women strove to replace the "Good Wife, Wise Mother" ideal with an individualist feminism that meshed social, political, and economic gender equity with the prevailing Confucian family ideology. However, during periods of hard authoritarianism from the 1930s to the 1960s, the autonomous movements collapsed. The particular brand of Taiwanese feminism developed from numerous outside influences, including interactions among an East Asian sociopolitical milieu, various strands of Western feminism, and Marxist-Leninist women's liberation programs in Soviet Russia. Chinese communism appears not to have played a significant role, due to the Chinese Nationalists' restriction of communication with the mainland during their rule on post-World War II Taiwan. Notably, this study compares the perspectives of Madame Chiang Kai-shek, whose husband led as the president of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1949 to 1975, and Hsiu-lien Annette Lu, Taiwan's vice president from 2000 to 2008. Delving into period sources such as the highly influential feminist monthly magazine Awakening as well as interviews with feminist leaders, Chang provides a comprehensive historical and cross-cultural analysis of the struggle for gender equality in Taiwan.	en
dc.description.tableofcontents	1. Feminist Discourses and Womes Movements under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945 -- 2. The Kuomintang Policies on Women and Government-Affiliated Women's Organizations -- 3. Hsiu-lien Annette Lu: The Pioneering Stage of the Postwar Autonomous Women's Movement and the Democratic Opposition, 1972-1979 -- 4. Lee Yuan-chen and Awakening, 1982-1989 -- 5. The Autonomous Women's Movement and Feminist Discourse in the Post-Martial Law Era.	en
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dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.publisher	University of Illinois Press	en
dc.relation.ispartof	Doris Chang's Publications	en
dc.rights	Copyright by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, 2009. All rights reserved.
dc.subject	Women	en
dc.subject	Women's rights -- Taiwan	en
dc.subject	Taiwan -- History	en
dc.subject	Taiwan -- 20th century	en
dc.subject	Women -- Social conditions	en
dc.subject	Feminism -- Taiwan	en
dc.subject	Feminist theory -- Taiwan	en
dc.title	Women's movements in twentieth-century Taiwan	en
dc.type	Book excerpt	en