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Hong Fincher, Leta.
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Feminism -- China.
Women -- Political activity -- China.
Social media -- Political aspects -- China.
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Hong Fincher, Leta.
Feminism -- China.
Women -- Political activity -- China.
Social media -- Political aspects -- China.
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Betraying
Big
Brother
: the
feminist
awakening
in
China
/ Leta Hong Fincher.
by
Hong Fincher, Leta.
Verso, 2018.
Call #:
305.420951 H772b
Subjects
Feminism --
China
.
Women -- Political activity --
China
.
Social media -- Political aspects --
China
.
ISBN:
9781786633644 (hc.)
Description:
248 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-233) and index.
Contents:
Introduction --
China
's
feminist
five -- The Internet and
feminist
awakening
-- Detention and release -- Your body is a battleground -- Jingwei fills the sea -- Feminists, lawyers and workers --
China
's patriarchal authoritarianism -- Conclusion: a song for all women.
Summary:
"On the eve of International Womens Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five
feminist
activists and jailed them for thirty-seven days. The
Feminist
Five became a global cause célèbre, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf and activists inundating social media with #FreetheFive messages. But the Five are only symbols of a much larger
feminist
movement of civil rights lawyers, labor activists, performance artists, and online warriors prompting an unprecedented
awakening
among
China
's educated, urban women. In
Betraying
Big
Brother
, journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher argues that the popular, broad-based movement poses the greatest challenge to
China
's authoritarian regime today.Through interviews with the
Feminist
Five and other leading Chinese activists, Hong Fincher illuminates both the difficulties they face and their "joy of
betraying
Big
Brother
," as one of the
Feminist
Five wrote of the defiance she felt during her detention. Tracing the rise of a new
feminist
consciousness now finding expression through the #MeToo movement, 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."--From publisher.
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