It was an anarcha-feminist group, one of the earliest Chinese organizations adhering to anarchism and feminism alike.
[1] The Association, which opposed the Qing dynasty and Confucianism, advocated the end of male privileges in traditional Chinese culture, and prohibited female submission to men.
[3] Most of its ideology was formulated by its founder, He-Yin Zhen – a Jiangsu-born anarchist, who had gone into Japanese exile together with her husband Liu Shipei.
[1] She condemned the unequal distribution of wealth, and refused to subordinate this women's class struggle to any other ideological cause.
[6] While little is known about the exact workings of the Women's Rights Recovery Association,[1] it is probable that the group was dissolved after He-Yin Zhen and her husband left Tokyo in 1909, returning to China.