| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 社會與區域發展學系碩士班 === 107 === Looking back on the development of Feminism in Taiwan, Lu Xiulian's New Feminism sounded the morning bell of the women's movement in the 1970s. In 1982, Li Yuanzhang established the Awakening Foundation and published the magazine Awakening to awaken the consciousness of self within women. It was concerned with women’s issues and fight for women’s rights to reach a gender-equitable society. This research uses textual analysis to explore the issues of feminism in the 1980s and 1990s magazine Awakening. The research purposes are:
(1) To explore the issues of "women's physical autonomy and personal safety" in the magazine Awakening.
(2) Exploring how magazine Awakening promotes gender equality in life.
(3) Summarizing the relevance between magazine Awakening and the development of women's rights and summing up its effectiveness.
This research divides the topics of concern in magazine Awakening into two major aspects, which are then partitioned into nine issues to further explore how they are promoted. "Women's physical autonomy and personal safety" includes: criticizing beauty pageants of objectifying women, supporting women's reproductive rights, demonstrating against child prostitution, establishing the Sexual Assault Prevention Act to protect women's personal safety, and constituting Family Violence Prevention Act to prevent violence in marriage; on the other hand, the daily gender equality issues include: amending The Part of Family of the Civil Code, emphasizing the importance of women's political participation and reforming textbooks’ Gender bias and discrimination.
Awakening is indispensable for the development of women's rights in Taiwan. It calls on women to be conscious and to participate in social movements, to care about policies and promote the formulation and revision of laws to achieve gender equality goals. The relevance of magazine Awakening and women's rights development is inseparable. It represents the development of Taiwan's women's movement. In an era of vigorous social movements, it pays attention to women's issues in an multifaceted way and contributes a lot to women's rights and interests.
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