Why Develop and Support Women's Organizations in Providing Legal Aid in China? Women's rights, women's organizations and legal aid in China

被引:5
作者
Lee, Tang Lay [1 ]
Regan, Francis [2 ]
机构
[1] Flinders Univ Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
[2] Flinders Univ S Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
关键词
EQUALITY; GENDER;
D O I
10.1080/10670560903033851
中图分类号
K9 [地理];
学科分类号
0705 ;
摘要
This article argues that women's organizations are central to legal aid for women in China. Chinese women would benefit if more women's legal aid organizations were developed and supported. There are currently too few such organizations, especially in rural areas. Their work challenges the public legal aid programme to develop a rights-based legal aid agenda to achieve greater gender equality through the protection of women's rights. They bring diverse women's perspectives which counter prevailing traditional patriarchal attitudes and male dominance in Chinese society. The emergence of autonomous women's organizations is also important because it helped to break the monopoly of the All China Women's Federation over women's perspectives, identities and interests in China. The article concludes that the competitive yet collaborative relationship between autonomous women's legal aid organizations and the All China Women's Federation is producing a definite and positive impact on gender equality through legal reform.
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页码:541 / 565
页数:25
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