Betraying Big Brother

The Feminist Awakening in China

Author: Leta Hong Fincher
ISBN: 9781786633644

A feminist movement clashing with China’s authoritarian governmentOn the eve of International Women’s 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 wro

Publisher: Verso Books
Publish Date: 2018-09-25

Subjects: Political Science / World / Asian, Political Science / History & Theory, Political Science / Civil Rights

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Asian-American/Asian)