Women's Movements in Twentieth-Century Taiwan

Index

Index abortion, 98–99, 115–16, 117, 160 Abstracts of Research on Women in Taiwan, 126 Academia Sinica, 3 Amnesty International, 104 Asia Foundation, 86, 97 autonomous women’s organizations: activists /memberships of, 17, 36–37, 154, 160; Awakening feminist contributions, 107; of colonial Taiwan, 11–12, 36–38; cultural-intellectual approach of, 37, 85, 109, 123, 160; defining, 11–13, 169n43; as elite-sustained movements, 36, 154; feminist discourse in post–martial law era, 118–55; funding of, 84, 159; mass-based movements, 160; phases of, 11–13; recruitment and membership of, 13 Awakening: first publication of, x, 12, 86; founders of, 15, 126; funding of, 122; goals of, 109; legislative lobbying strategy, 162; on lesbian issues, 136–37 Awakening Associations, 13, 15, 123, 160, 162 Awakening Foundation: demonstration against sexual harassment, 138–39; on equal employment of men and women, 146–47; family law reforms, 129, 130, 131; ideological rift between liberal and radical feminists, 136–37, 166; improving treatment of foreign labor, 146; on licensed prostitution, 142–43; members in Council for the Promotion of Women’s Rights, 153; mission of, 122–24; opposition to nuclear power plants, 120; representatives to UN Commission on the Status of Women, 154; women activist members of, 107, 132, 133 Awakening Publishing House, 104, 109, 122, 159–60 Basic Labor Standard Law, 144 betrothal (pinjin), 24, 95 Between Us (Women zhi jian), 135–36 birth control, 99, 117 The Book of Changes (I Jing, I Ching), 6 The Book of Rites (Li ji), 185n89 Borodin, Mikhail, 48 Bulletin of Book Reviews in Gender Studies , 126 camphor, 39–40 Center for the Study of Gender and Sexualities , 128 Chang, Yen-hsien, 149 Chang, Yueh-ch’eng, 29 Ch’en, Chu, 149 Chen, Shui-bian: as mayor of Taipei, 142, 143; as president of Taiwan, xi, 104, 137, 152 Ch’en, Yi, 59, 60, 67 Ch’en, Ying, 28 Cheng, Shu-ju Ada, 8, 11 Chiang, Ching-kuo, x, 4, 62, 181n1 Chiang, Kai-shek: Blue Shirt society formed by, 53; children of, x; constitutional power 222 Index of, 62, 64; death of, x; goal of unifying China, 51; hard authoritarian leadership of, 4; leader of Northern Expeditionary Force, 49; New Life movement launched, 54; political and financial support of, 50; priority of army resources, 50–51; purge of left-wing radicals, 51; rule of Taiwan, ix Chiang, Nora Lan-hung, 125 Chiang, Soong May-ling (Madame Chiang Kai-shek): appeal to upper- and middleclass populations, 58; career of, 55–56, 57–58; childhood in U.S., 64–65; Confucian -oriented ideology toward women, 46; education of, 55; as leader of government -affiliated women’s organizations, 14, 55–58, 66–75, 158; marriage to Chiang Kai-shek, 55; political influences of, 56; as social feminist, 65; volunteer activities, 65; on women’s fulfillment and patriotic duties, 55, 64–65, 158 childcare: provided by farmers’ associations, 68–69, 145, 179–80n119; socialized, 112, 113, 117, 161, 162, 165; for working mothers, 63, 73, 79, 148, 155 China: footbinding custom of, 6–7, 19, 25, 33; Han dynasty, 5; Ming dynasty, 7, 18; Mongol Yuan dynasty, 6–7; nomadic influences, 5; Qing dynasty, ix, 7, 19, 100; resisting Western influences, 7; Six Dynasties , 5; Song dynasty, 5–6; Sui dynasty, 5; Tang dynasty, 5; women’s status in history , 5–8. See also People’s Republic of China (PRC); Republic of China (ROC) China Times, 82 Chinese Civil War, 72 Chinese Communist Party (CCP): creation of, 101; discourse on gender equality, 48, 162; First United Front, 48–50, 72, 73, 162; Mao as chairman, x Chinese Women’s Anti-Aggression League, 46, 70–71, 157, 158, 180n128, 180n130 Chou, Bih-er, 125, 126 Chu, Ming, 179n117 Civic Bodies Organization Law, 159 Cold War, 10, 74 colonial Taiwan: aboriginal armed resistance in, 39; assimilating women into Japanese culture, 14; control transferred to Kuomintang government, 45; education programs of, 7–8, 30; government-affiliated women’s organizations, 38–44; industrial development, 40–41; as Japanese colony, 7, 30, 38, 41, 157; public health programs, 7; women’s status and rights, 32–34, 34–36. See also Kuomintang/Chinese Nationalist government; Taiwan Commission on Gender Equality, 147, 153 Communist University for the Toilers of the East, 35 “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” (Rich), 135 concubines, 24–25 Confucian traditions: cardinal virtues, 54; feminist critique of, 16, 44–45; moral cultivation, 54; rectification of names, 92, 195n87; rites of conduct, 23–24, 82; status of women, 5, 6, 24...