Doris T. Chang
Dr.Doris T. Chang is Associate Professor of Political Science at Wichita State University. She received her Ph.D. degree from the Department of History at The Ohio State University in 2002. Her areas of specialties include East Asian history, the comparative studies of women’s movements in the Asia-Pacific Region and the United States, and Asian American women’s studies. Dr. Chang authored the first monographic research in English to consider feminist movements and discourses in modern Taiwan. Her book Women's Movements in Twentieth-Century Taiwan was published by University of Illinois Press in 2009. In addition, Dr. Chang did extensive research on the New Feminism of Ms. Hsiu-lien Annette Lu, the Vice President of Taiwan (2000-2008). She started her academic career at WSU in 2003 in the Women's Studies and moved the Political Science Department in 2020. To learn more about Dr. Chang, Visit her departmental web page.
Recent Submissions
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Chen Chü: A Cosmopolitan Leader for Human Rights and Democracy in Taiwan
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Gender mainstreaming and gender policies in contemporary Taiwan
(Bridgewater State University, 2018-08)In 1995, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (hereafter referred to as the Platform for Action) promulgated during the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women called for the use of gender mainstreaming ... -
What can Taiwan and the United States learn from each other's guest worker programs?
(SAGE Publications, 2010)This study argues that employers in newly industrialized societies such as Taiwan, like their counterparts in postindustrial economies such as the United States, practice outsourcing and recruitment of guest workers in the ... -
Legalisation of same-sex marriage in contemporary Taiwan
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2020-08-20)In 2019 Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage pursuant to the Constitutional Court's decision two years earlier. This article adds to previous research on same-sex marriage in Taiwan in two ... -
Studies of Taiwan's feminist discourses and women's movements
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2018-02)In the twentieth century, Taiwanese feminists have selectively appropriated various strands of Western feminism to improve women's status and meet women's needs. In this article, several scholarly works pertaining to the ... -
Transformation of women’s status in Taiwan, 1920-2020
(Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2022-01-18)This chapter surveys the continuities and changes of Taiwanese women’s status and roles in the family and society in the past century. The four key topics in women’s roles and status in marriage and the family, educational ... -
Reading Sex and Temperament in Taiwan: Margaret Mead and Postwar Taiwanese Feminism
(Indiana University Press, 2009)This essay examines the ways in which Margaret Mead's research findings in New Guinea were transmitted to a Chinese-speaking audience through Yang Mei-hui's annotated Chinese summary of part 4 of Mead's Sex and Temperament ... -
Women's movements in twentieth-century Taiwan
(University of Illinois Press, 2009)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 ... -
Two women, two visions of nationhood for Taiwan: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Hsiu-lien Annette Lu
(Ewha Womans University Press, 2009)This essay discusses the ways in which social feminism in postwar Taiwan has been used as a means to further the nationalistic goals of Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the former vice- president of Taiwan, Hsiu-lien Annette Lu. ...
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