Recovering Lost Voices: French and Chinese Anarcho-Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century

WANG Lang

doi:10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20214404

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WANG Lang. Recovering Lost Voices: French and Chinese Anarcho-Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2021, 4(4): 655-677. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20214404

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WANG Lang. Recovering Lost Voices: French and Chinese Anarcho-Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2021, 4(4): 655-677. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20214404

WANG Lang. Recovering Lost Voices: French and Chinese Anarcho-Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2021, 4(4): 655-677. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20214404

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Recovering Lost Voices: French and Chinese Anarcho-Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century

doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20214404

WANG Lang^,

Beijing Institute of Technology

Received Date: 2020-12-18
Accepted Date: 2021-09-13

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French anarcho-feminism greatly influenced Chinese anti-statist feminist discourse in the early twentieth century. Chinese anarchist Li Shiceng launched the organ journal Xin Shiji on June 22, 1907, in Paris under the influence of Elisée Reclus. It soon became the bridge between French anarchists and Chinese anarchists in Tokyo who inaugurated Tianyi on June 10, 1907. The interwoven genealogical roots of French and Chinese anarcho-feminism constitute a rich case for transnational inquiry. Scholarship of first-wave feminism often centers on the suffragist achievement, neglecting the anti-statist discourse in the two countries.However, the rich legacy of first-wave feminism can only be understood by exploring the counter-discourse that anarcho-feminism poses. This project brings together a close analysis of articles published in anarchist journals such as Le Libertaire, L'Idée libre, L'Anarchie, Xin Shiji, and Tianyi, and historical materials to reconstruct anarcho-feminist conceptions on women's sexuality, education, and labor. This study supplies an important chapter in the history of global feminism. It offers a liberating paradigm that allows for a decentralized power structure and stands as a counter-discourse that dismantles power, hierarchy, and state.Challenging the principles of aggression, competition, and independence that underlie masculine culture, it fosters a philosophy of love and peace that builds on equality, mutual aid and care, and interdependence. It is a vision that continues to nourish present-day feminist politics.
- Anarcho-feminism,
- free love,
- He-Yin Zhen,
- Proudhon,
- Tianyi

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