Mainland China’s TERFs’ Misogyny Under JK Rowling’s Anti-trans Incident

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10.2991/assehr.k.220504.238How to use a DOI?

Keywords

JK Rowling; patriarchy; Chinese feminism; Weibo; TERF

Abstract

This paper investigates comments related to JK Rowling’s anti-transgender event on Chinese microblogging platforms between June 2020 and February 2022, a period involving further development of JK Rowling’s anti-transgender event and discussions on domestic self-publishing, resulting in a large number of relevant comments during this period. The relevant comments are then qualified as sensitive samples through corpus technology and presented through word cloud technology. This paper briefly discusses the definition of radical feminism and the definition of TERF and its development in China and abroad, and then elaborates and psychologically analyzes the JK Rowling anti-transgender incident and the resulting Weibo comments, showing that TERF in China is a hybrid product of essentialism and the attachment of the “I” in ID to the Big Other. TERFs have a misogynistic tendency and fall into a patriarchal trap of women trying to represent all women. We should call for feminist pluralism and create more possibilities.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Leshui Qiao
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/06/01
TI  - Mainland China’s TERFs’ Misogyny Under JK Rowling’s Anti-trans Incident
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 8th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1322
EP  - 1326
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220504.238
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220504.238
ID  - Qiao2022
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