Struggles and Separation: Reconsidering Women's Participation in Establishing their Status during the Collectivist Era: Women in Shuanglong Village in Area of En'shi, Hubei
CUI Ying-ling
Department of Sociology at the Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, Hubei Province, China
Abstract：This paper examines the changes in rural women's rights and status in China during the collectivist era through a study of three women's life experiences in Shuanglong Village in the area of En'shi, Hubei. It points out that the rise of women's status during this era was not entirely due to the implementation of and mobilization by government's top-down policies, but rather more importantly due to women's collective struggles. Upon the raising of their consciousness, women actively used government policies to struggle against family, lineage and local officials who distorted government policies and eventually broke away from the shackles of tradition. Women were therefore not passive beneficiaries of government policies but active designers and builders. The government was both a judge of and a tool for women's liberation. In the end of contests among many parties involved, women partially fulfilled their historical cause of raising their status and improving their rights.
崔应令. 抗争与决裂：集体时代女性参与建构自身地位的再认识——以湖北恩施土家族双龙村女性为例[J]. 妇女研究论丛, 2011, 0(1): 23-33.
CUI Ying-ling. Struggles and Separation: Reconsidering Women's Participation in Establishing their Status during the Collectivist Era: Women in Shuanglong Village in Area of En'shi, Hubei. , 2011, 0(1): 23-33.
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