Overview
- Contributes to the rise and advancement of gender studies and activism in Taiwan
- Adds to the overview of feminism or gender studies in the Chinese-speaking cultural realm
- Brings together scholars in the fields of anthropology, religion, history, political science, literature, media, education, performing arts, sociology, and cultural studies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Chinese Feminist Activists and the Chinese Revolution
- Education and Gender Issues in Taiwan
- Gender Studies and Activism in Taiwan
- Gendering of Citizenship
- Gendering the Chinese Socio-Religious Order
- Huangmei Opera Film Genre
- International Migration Flow in Taiwan
- Lü Hsiu-lien’s Political Career
- Madame Chiang Kai-shek
- Taiwanese Feminism Gender Issues
- Women and Taiwan Politics
About this book
This book highlights the diversity and richness of non-Mainland China and Taiwan-oriented gender issues from a unique Taiwanese perspective, in contrast to previous studies that have often placed Taiwanese gender issues under the huge umbrella of Mainland Chinese, Communist Chinese, or P.R.C. women’s and gender studies. In a follow-up dialogue to and with Liu’s, Karl’s, and Ko’s The Birth of Chinese Feminism, this book looks at the various metaphorical details of that “birth” and the different dimensions of Mainland Chinese versus Taiwanese feminism and gender issues. Although Chinese-heritage people share similar traditions, different gender problems have occurred in and challenged various local conditions of Chinese-speaking areas. Taiwan’s gender issues have reflected Taiwan’s unique historical, sociocultural, economic, political, (post)colonial, military, and diplomatic backgrounds, in ways unfamiliar to the many people with a Chinese background who are not Taiwanese. This volume gives a historical outline of the people and events that paved the way for the rise of Taiwanese feminism, and includes portraits of famous feminists, gender issues in institutions, and a variety of gender concerns.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Ya-chen Chen is Associate Professor at China Medical University as well as a visiting scholar in Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University in the City of New York. Her academic books include The Many Dimensions of Chinese Feminism; Women in Chinese Martial Arts of the New Millennium: Narrative Analysis and Gender Politics; Women and Gender in Contemporary Chinese Societies: Beyond the Han Patriarchy; Higher Education in East Asia: Neoliberalism and Professoriate; Women in Taiwan: Sociocultural Perspectives; Farewell My Concubine: Same-Sex Readings and Cross-Cultural Dialogues.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: (En)Gendering Taiwan
Book Subtitle: The Rise of Taiwanese Feminism
Editors: Ya-chen Chen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63219-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63217-9Published: 02 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87499-9Published: 24 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63219-3Published: 15 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 180
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Gender Studies, Cultural Studies