“Being a Good Daughter of the Party”?
Resumen
Like other socialist institutions surviving in China’s market reforms, the All-China Women’s Federation (ACWF or WF when referring to its local branches), as the only state-sponsored organisation representing women’s interests, has been constantly refashioning itself to meet new existential challenges. In July 2015, the central leadership of the Chinese Communist Party commanded a new wave of mass organisational reforms, in which the Women’s Federation’s alienation from the grassroots and a weakening representation of women’s interests were questioned. After three years of intensive reform, are the local structures of the ACWF being substantially improved to reconnect to its mass base? Drawing from extensive fieldwork in three provinces and a neo-institutional analysis, this article argues that in the short term, although the reform serves principally as a consolidation of Party authority, local Women’s Federations are creatively using the reform to expand their popular base and broaden their representativeness. In the long term, however, local WFs are facing unreformed institutional problems such as political marginalisation, bureaucratisation, and ineffective implementation, which stagnate further development of China’s state feminism.
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Yunyun Zhou, « “Being a Good Daughter of the Party”? », China Perspectives, 2019-2 | 2019, 17-28.
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Yunyun Zhou, « “Being a Good Daughter of the Party”? », China Perspectives [En línea], 2019-2 | 2019, Publicado el 10 junio 2019, consultado el 16 octubre 2019. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/9042
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