Empowerment in a Global Space: Reflections on Women's Activism in China

• In Event: Feminist Activism and Transnational China: Reflections 20 Years after the UN Women's Conference in Beijing

Abstract

This paper analyzes three examples of activist practice that have arisen since 1999: emerging Lesbian activism, a new "School of Feminism" initiative, and my participation in the review of China's implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women. I will then discuss the features of transnational/transborder feminisms, and how contemporary women's activism in China has been encouraged, enlightened, and equipped by the staging of the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. As a practitioner involved in these actions, I draw on my first hand experience and observations to provide a reflexive account of these developments.

Presenter

• Yuan Feng, Media Monitor for Women Network, Beijing, China