英文摘要 |
Gender mainstreaming by the Taiwanese government began in 2005 under the Executive Yuan, with work spearheaded by the Committee of Women’s Rights Promotion (CWRP) during its 5th and 6th terms (2005-2009). This paper examines the alliance strategies that women’s activists in the CWRP adopted to promote gender mainstreaming within the state during that period. By exploiting changes in the political opportunity structures, creating social capital, and exercising emotion work, these activists, a group empowered by strong mutual trust and a high level of selfdiscipline, were able to bring about concrete institutional changes. They successfully built the CWRP into a habitat for women’s movements, reaching out to other feminist networks both inside and outside the state to create solid bonding social capital. At the same time, taking advantage of the shifting political opportunity structures, they managed to win the support of the President and the Premier and institutionalize communication channels with high-level officials in the Executive Yuan; the use of emotion work to create bridging social capital helped them earn civil servants’ trust, even leading to the emergence of femocrats. As trust, mutual benefits and regular networking between these women’s activists and government departments accumulated, the CWRP’s executive power and influence increased, leading to the establishment of many gender equality institutions. This paper discusses three theories and their significances in practice: (1) the dichotomous differentiation of social movement and institutional politics, and how it can be broken; (2) social capital, and how it can strengthen the relationship between the women’s movement and the State and increase the CWRP’s governance capacity; and (3) in response to arguments of state feminism, the suggestion of an ideal type for the relationship between women’s movement and the CWRP. |