Liberation of the Mind or "Liberation of Emotions"?： Difficulties Women in Hunan Faced When They First "Left Home" at the Beginning of the Republic of China
HANG Su-hong
Department of Sociology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Abstract：This paper examines individual cases with women in Hunan who first "left home" in pursuit of women's liberation and identifies the differences that this departure had created with respect to its effects between "liberation of the mind" and "liberation of emotions," as well as how emotions had influenced the path of individual pursuit of liberation. On the one hand, emotional ties at home often prevented women who had acquired liberated minds to leave home in pursuit of individual independence. On the other hand, for those women who had left home by overcoming the restriction of such emotional ties on them, they would feel both resentful toward and a longing for their home. This undoubtedly had been an emotional dilemma for those women who pursued "liberation". In conclusion, the paper suggests possibilities for those women to resolve this dilemma by pursuing changes in emotions and recognizing limitations to "liberation of emotions."
杭苏红. “观念解放”还是“情感解放”？——民初湖南新女性“离家”的实践困境[J]. 妇女研究论丛, 2016, 0(1): 65-70.
HANG Su-hong. Liberation of the Mind or "Liberation of Emotions"?： Difficulties Women in Hunan Faced When They First "Left Home" at the Beginning of the Republic of China. , 2016, 0(1): 65-70.
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