Reconceiving Women's Equality in China

According to the author the subordination of Chinese women continued under different models of sex equality in China in the twentieth century. In <I>Reconceiving Women's Equality in China</I> Lijun Yuan discusses and assesses four models of women's equality. After exposing the common feature of their failure to reach the social ideal of women's equality the author proposes a more democratic conception of women's equality that will allow ideals to continue changing as material circumstances change in different stages of social development.