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Individual and collective empowerment: Women's voices in the #MeToo movement in China
Abstract
In the past, women had been inclined to remain silent in the face of sexual harassment and this article examines the case of Chinese women, who have been empowered by the global #MeToo movement to fight for social equality. Through interviews and observations, this study analyzes how this movement has empowered Chinese women both at individual and collective levels and motivated them to fight against sexual harassment. However, further challenges remain, such as reforming of outdated laws. Therefore, the study suggests an institutional level approach for the empowerment of Chinese women and aims to draw more attention to similar strategies for the empowerment of women in non-western contexts.
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“A leading feminist media channel, Feminist Voices ( Nüquan zhisheng ), and its Weibo and WeChat accounts were also shut down by the National Security Department (Lin and Yang 2019; Yin and Sun 2020; Zeng 2019).”
From Coalition-Based Gender Lobbying: Revisiting Women's Substantive Representation in China's Authoritarian Governance (2022) · cites this paper as Lin and Yang 2019
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“In March 2018, the low point of the ASH movement arrived when many posts and comments under the #MeToo hashtag were censored or deleted.”
From Coalition-Based Gender Lobbying: Revisiting Women's Substantive Representation in China's Authoritarian Governance (2022) · cites this paper as Lin and Yang 2019
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- Authors
- Lin, Z., & Yang, L.
- Affiliations
- Sun Yat-sen University (CN)
- Chongqing University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Yang, Liu
- Venue
- Asian Journal of Women's Studies
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2019-01-02
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 117-131
- ISSN
- 1225-9276 (ISSN-L)
- 2377-004X
- OpenAlex
- W2918110015
- Cited by
- 93
- References
- 14
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 20 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 2
- FWCI
- 16.16
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Asian Journal of Women s Studies (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Chongqing University (2018CDXYXW0043, 106112017 CDJXY070002)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
- Keywords
- #MeToo, women's empowerment, sexual harassment, Chinese women, self-empowerment, collective empowerment, social equality, anti-sexual harassment legislation, non-Western contexts
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