Approaching the six decades of history of the PRC from a gender perspective, Professor Wang will focus on the changes in gender norms by examining how women have been visually represented in the official media and analyzing the meanings of visible changes in women’s images.

Professor Wang’s publications concern feminism in China, both in terms of its historical development and its contemporary activism, and changing gender discourses in China’s socioeconomic, political, and cultural transformations of the last century.  She is an academic activist who is devoted to the development of gender studies in China.  She is the founder and co-director of the UM-Fudan Joint Institute for Gender Studies in Shanghai.

Please check the OLLI web site for additional lectures in the 6-week series, “China’s Internal and External Challenges and Opportunities”, Thursdays, January 8 - February 12.

http://www.olli-umich.org/programs_activities/lectures/3rd_Lecture_Series.pdf