Skip to main content
Kent Academic Repository

Thirty years on: A conversation with Xingjuan Wang, a pioneer of the Beijing declaration and platform for action

Wang, Xingjuan, Barberet, Rosemary, Beichner-Thomas, Dawn, Ranjan, Sheetal, Zhang, Joy Yueyue (2026) Thirty years on: A conversation with Xingjuan Wang, a pioneer of the Beijing declaration and platform for action. Current Sociology, . ISSN 0011-3921. (doi:10.1177/00113921261445762) (KAR id:115517)

Abstract

This article is an interview between the guest editors of this monograph issue and Xingjuan Wang, a Chinese feminist activist and a co-founder of the Maple Women’s Psychological Counseling Hotline, one of the earliest grassroots initiatives supporting women facing domestic violence in China. Xingjuan Wang was present at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. In this exchange, she reflects on her work as well as the impact of the conference and its outcome documents, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1177/00113921261445762
Subjects: H Social Sciences
H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Institutional Unit: Schools > School of Social Sciences
Former Institutional Unit:
There are no former institutional units.
Depositing User: Joy Y Zhang
Date Deposited: 30 May 2026 07:07 UTC
Last Modified: 30 May 2026 07:07 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/115517 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

University of Kent Author Information

  • Depositors only (login required):

Total unique views of this page since July 2020. For more details click on the image.