Moving from the Vote into Citizenship: Crafting Chinese Women’s Political Citizenship (original) (raw)

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The paper examines the political citizenship of Chinese women, particularly after their suffrage victory in 1936. It highlights how the un-promulgated Double Fifth Constitution offered women political legitimacy but constrained feminist aspirations as party interests overshadowed collective women's rights. The study addresses the complexities of suffrage internationalism and its influence on tactics employed by global suffragists, ultimately arguing that party alignment limited the evolution and scope of feminist actions in China during the 1930s and 1940s.

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