The appointee will work on a project focusing on women’s rights within a transnational frame, with a particular focus on China’s interactions with global norms, discourses and programs designed to improve the status of women. Where country-specific case studies dominate the majority of scholarly work on women’s status, this project will emphasis the interactions between regions and nations across a number of frames: engagement with international agencies, interactions between formal government ‘offices for the status of women’ of different nations; connections between women’s status-oriented Non-Governmental Organizations and collaborations between grass-roots, ‘project specific’ women’s status organizations. Over the period of the applicant’s tenure, the appointee will examine how nation-based bodies (with China as the core site of comparison) have influenced each other’s programs through international and transnational activism.
The appointee will have expertise in a relevant field within China Studies (e.g. gender, history, politics) but should ideally also be capable of adopting a transnational perspective in order to explore the links Chinese people have with Europe, the Americas and Asia
Posts
