Gender, Politics, and Democracy
Women's Suffrage in China

Louise Edwards (Author)

9780804756884

Hardback, published 1 January 2008

352 pages, 14 figures
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.603 kg

"Edwards artfully explores efforts by Chinese Women to achieve political equality in the early 20th century.—S. C. Hart, Choice.

This is the first exploration of women's campaigns to gain equal rights to political participation in China. The dynamic and successful struggle for suffrage rights waged by Chinese women activists through the first half of the twentieth century challenged fundamental and centuries-old principles of political power. By demanding a public political voice for women, the activists promoted new conceptions of democratic representation for the entire political structure, not simply for women. Their movement created the space in which gendered codes of virtue would be radically transformed for both men and women.