Abstract:Since the reformation of law in the late Qing Dynasty, body rights became important issues that were pursued either explicitly or implicitly by various political regimes. After 1949 body rights developed in a process more congenial to the contemporary society. Under the productive mechanism of the discourse of "liberation" the marriage law adopted in 1950 expressed women's demand for breaking away from feudal marital relationship and liberating women's bodies. Freedom was the goal of the Marriage Law and constructing a new image for women was its institutional function. In the practice of the Marriage Law, the use of administrative and legal means represented two different directions in the process of propaganda and mobilization for the Law compared to the implementation of the Law. Through the interplay of power and technicality in the politics of body rights, the body did not gain rights as complete as what it was designed by the system. The body, instead, to some extent was brought under the control of the new mechanisms of power.
陈寒非. 法权身体:1950年婚姻法的表达与实践[J]. 妇女研究论丛, 2014, 0(5): 63-70.
CHEN Han-fei. Body Rights: The Expression and Practice of the Marriage Law Adopted in 1950. , 2014, 0(5): 63-70.