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| How Unmarried Women Residing in Their Fathers' Villages Find Themselves from a Perspective of "History" and "Locality" |
| YANG Hua |
| Institute of Marxism at Huazhong Technological University, Wuhan 430074, Hubei Province, China |
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Abstract In the Chinese countryside where women popularly reside in their husbands' villages, they are regarded as "outsiders" and how they gain a sense of life-long destination is a worthy question for research. There are two levels to a sense of life-long destination among rural women in China. One is for rural women to build between them and male dominated families and villages relationships of rights and responsibilities, play a certain role and gain due status in the relational and social networks. The second is while gaining status in the networks, they are to pursue their interests and desire and achieve the meaning of life and values. This paper argues that rural girls inherit the sense of history and locality where they live with their fathers, establish themselves in a web of rights and responsibilities with their paternal relatives and other members of the villages, and gain a sense of belonging and meaning of life in midst of relationships. Once their fathers pass away, however, girls would loss all what they had gained, including the rights and responsibilities they had established in the villages. They sometimes find it difficult to maintain a decent living and may have to struggle against the sense of loss throughout their lives.
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