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本講座將討論王政教授新作《五四女性：現代中國女權主義先行者》，將五四女權主義置於當時的全球背景和本地政治文化的特殊動態中加以考察，進而比較20世紀中美女權主義思潮的發展歷程，重點闡釋中國女權主義歷史的具體特徵。透過從歷史角度切入討論，有助於我們更深入理解中國女權主義進程中所呈現的長處與局限。

 

The talk discusses Prof. Wang Zheng’s new Chinese revised edition of her book on the May Fourth feminists, Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual Histories (五四女性：現代中國女權主義先行者). Situating the May Fourth Feminism in the global context and the locally specific political and cultural dynamics in that historical period, the talk compares the development of Chinese feminism with that of US feminism in the 20th century and highlights the specificities of the history of Chinese feminism. The historical approach to the subject may enable us to reach a deeper understanding of the strengths and constraints of Chinese feminism.

 

王政  美國密西根大學婦女與社會性別學及歷史學榮休教授。主要學術著作包括《尋找國家中的婦女：社會主義體制中的國家女權主義（1949–1964）》（Finding Women in the State）、《女性的崛起》及《越界》。合作主編《鄉土中國》（費孝通著作英譯本）、《女權主義在中國的翻譯歷程》以及《毛澤東時代成長的中國婦女》等，編著多部女權主義與社會性別研究文集並發表多篇中英文期刊論文。

 

王政長期致力於通過學術方式踐行女權活動，推動中國女權學術與社會性別學的發展：1999年發起中國婦女與社會性別學科建設項目並擔任顧問；2002年首創由密西根大學、香港中文大學與中華女子學院三校聯合舉辦的婦女學學位班；2005至2019年期間創辦復旦－密西根大學社會性別研究所，培養了一群從事婦女與社會性別學的大學教師和研究生。

 

WANG Zheng is Professor Emerita of Women’s and Gender Studies and History at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Finding Women in the State: A Socialist Feminist Revolution in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1964 and has co-edited several volumes, including From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society, Translating Feminisms in China, and Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era. She has also authored two books and co-edited nine volumes on feminism and gender studies in Chinese, with many articles published in English and Chinese journals.

 

A long-term academic activist promoting feminist scholarship and gender studies in China, she initiated the Women’s and Gender Studies Curriculum Development Project in China in 1999 and established the first inter-university women’s studies degree program (University of Michigan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and China Women’s University) in 2002. She was also the founder and co-director of the UM-Fudan Joint Institute for Gender Studies, which served as a feminist academic center for training university faculty and graduate students in China from 2005 to 2019.

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