Maoism, Feminism, and the UN Conference on Women: Women's Studies Research in Contemporary China
@article{Zheng1997MaoismFA, title={Maoism, Feminism, and the UN Conference on Women: Women's Studies Research in Contemporary China}, author={Wang Zheng}, journal={Journal of Women's History}, year={1997}, volume={8}, pages={126 - 152} }
On a September morning at Huairou, the site of the 1995 Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Forum, over three hundred women from all over the world gathered in an auditorium to listen to the presentations of a group of Chinese women scholars on the topic "Women's Studies in China." This was one of forty-seven panels presented by Chinese women at the NGO Forum. Many participants in the Forum from outside of China, observing Chinese women's activities for the first time, were impressed by what…
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