betraying big brother the feminist awakening in china

Her research concerns nineteenth century US-China relations.

Laurie Dickmeyer is an Assistant Professor of History at Angelo State University, where she teaches courses in Asian and US history.

Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (Verso, 2018) examines censorship and social media the trauma of detention and its aftermath the history of feminism in China the feminist fight against sexual assault, sexual harassment, and domestic violence and, ultimately, the remarkable ways that feminist thinking spreads under the circumstances. The author of Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, Leta Hong Fincher, uses the stories of these women to explore a much larger issue-that the subjugation of women is a key component of the authoritarian state. Dubbed the Feminist Five, news of the women spread rapidly through social media. Although such detainments usually last 24 hours, these women were detained 37 days, the legal limit for detention without bringing charges. Tracing the rise of a new feminist consciousness through online campaigns resembling #MeToo, and describing how the Communist regime has suppressed the history of its own feminist struggles, Betraying Big Brother is a story of how the movement against patriarchy could reconfigure China and the world.On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, five activists were detained by the police in China for their plans to distribute anti-sexual harassment stickers. Through interviews with the Feminist Five and other leading Chinese activists, Hong Fincher illuminates both the challenges they face and their joy of betraying Big Brother. In Betraying Big Brother, journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher argues that the popular, broad-based movement poses the greatest threat to Chin's authoritarian regime today. But the Feminist Five are only symbols of a much larger feminist movement of civil rights lawyers, labor activists, performance artists and online warriors that is prompting an unprecedented awakening among China' s urban, educated women. China Podcast is Leta Hong Fincher, journalist, sociologist and author of the book Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China. : Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (9781786633644) by Hong Fincher, Leta and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf, and activists inundating social media with #FreetheFive messages. On the eve of International Women' s Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for 37 days.

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