This book is an ethnography of feminism and women's movements in post-1997 Hong Kong. It shifts our analyses away from the confines of women's participation in state and inter-state structures and institutions, to incorporate women's mobilization of disadvantaged and disaffected women, the majority of whom are culturally and ethnically distinct groups of women from Mainland China as well as South and Southeast Asia. It is when women activists are reflecting upon more extensive and inclusive representations of feminism to overcome hierarchies of class, gender, ethnicity, and nationality that we observe multiple and contradictory dynamics of power. Building on the developments in scholarship on transnational feminism, this book reveals, not only the historical and experiential specificities of and differences in women's lives, but the historical and experiential connections among women from different class backgrounds as well as ethnic and national communities in Hong Kong. This challenges us to articulate feminism as constituted in, and by, women's relations to one another, not only on the basis of difference, but in terms of concomitance, interaction, and mutuality.

Adelyn Lim, author

Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore