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2012 Vol.0 Issue.5
Published 2012-10-10
CONTENTS
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The Impact of Subjective Norms on the Sex-selective Intention during Pregnancy: A Study Based on TRA Model and Social Ties Structure in Rural China
YANG Xue-yan,Gillian Einstein
Using the TRA model and the data from the surveys conducted in three counties of Shaanxi province, this study analyzes the impacts of the subjective norms held by members of the structures of social ties in rural China on individual member's sex-selective intentions during pregnancy. The results indicate that the TRA model proves effective in explaining individual's sex-selective intention based on preference for son in areas where the son preference practice is strong. Whether adopting the sex-selective behavior based on son preference during pregnancy is, firstly, determined by the individual's own son preference attitudes. The subjective norms of the members who belong to the social ties structure have the significant impacts on parents' sex-selective intention based on son preference during pregnancy. However, secondly, the final decision on adopting sex-selective behavior based on son preference during pregnancy is an outcome of competition between blood ties versus marital ties, and strong versus weak social ties.
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Analysis of Influencing Factors in Rural Women's Right in Significant Family Decisions
TAO Tao
Using data from a family and fertility survey conducted by Renmin University of China in 2010, we classified the influencing factors in rural women's right in significant family decisions into five categories: women's own characters, support from their parents, their birth to a son, outside influence and cultural differences. We then used these influencing factors as independent variables and rural women's right in significant family decisions as dependent variable in a binary-logistic regression, in order to examine and compare the importance of each factor. The conclusion shows that some factors which are significantly related to dependent variable in some single -factor research are not significant in our model which considered various aspects. Of all factors taken into account in this article, women's income and living conditions (whether to live with the husband's family) have the most significant and strongest influences on the rural women's right to participate in the significant family decision, while differences in couple's educational levels and different culture can also have significant impacts.
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The Impact of Care for Parents on the Health of Married Women in Rural China
GU He-jun,LIU Yun-ping
Family care is the primary support to the rural elderly in China, and women have been the main caregivers. In face of government reducing support to the elderly whose number has grown exponentially, women's burden of care has increased. We use the "Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey" (CLHLS) in 2002 and 2005 to examine the impact of care for parents on the health of married women in rural China. We have found that in rural China, compared with those who do not provide care for parents, the women who take care of parents are more likely to report worse health status, and the probability of "excellent" and "good" in health conditions will decrease by 7.4%. The health of husband also affects women's health. Compared with those whose husband's health is poor, the women whose husband's health is good are more likely to have good health status, and the probability of "excellent" and "good" will increase by 33.77%.
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Effects of Social Support Networks on the Mental Health of Rural Women Left at Home in the Northwest Region: A Survey from Gansu Province
LIU Wei
This paper examines the effects of social support networks on the mental health of rural women left at home in the northwest region. Based on a sample survey of 311 rural women left at home in Gansu Province and the application of social support network measurement and the SCL-90 scale in its analysis, the results show that: the social support networks of rural women left at home in the sample region are smaller in scale, but have stronger ties among network members, and are less heterogeneous but of high convergence; the level of mental health of rural women left at home in the northwest region is significantly lower than the national average level; the level of mental health of rural women left at home in the northwest region is inversely related to the scale as well as the het erogeneity and convergence of their social support networks.
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Support Networks for Women Staying behind in Villages: Based on a Study of 2414 Rural Women in 66 Counties Spreading in 16 Provinces
Lü Fang
Social support formally complements social security system. In rapid industrialization and urbanization, able bodied farmers have left for cities in search of employment, leaving women behind as the main force of building the new countryside and transforming the traditional practice of "men plough and women weaving" to "men toil and women plough". Rural women have to rebuild their support networks, a subject that has been under-researched in China. Based on a survey of 2414 women, this paper finds that the husband as the absent "head of household" is still the centre of gravity in women's emotional as well as financial support networks. Women's maternal family's support exceeds support from their in-laws, especially in emotional and financial areas. Neighbors and friends are all main contacts of support daily though neighbors provide support more in production while friends provide more emotional support. Relatives provides supports in all areas.
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Desegregating the Crime of Whoring with a Girl under the Age of Fourteen to Rape and Child Molestation and Amending the Relative Criminal Legislation
LIU Yan
Objectively, crime of whoring with a girl under the age of fourteen is nearly the same as rape and child molestation as a crime. So we could relegate the crime to one of the latter two, decreasing redundancy accusation and contradiction in judicial practice and discontent of the populace. To do so will not reduce the protection of sexual health of the girl under the age of fourteen, and also clearly define the crime. For instance, by differentiating the circumstances in sentencing whoring with a girl under the age of fourteen either as rape, or as child molestation, we can establish more effective sentences on the crime.
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Honored Feminine by the Government and the Influences on the Lives of Women by This System during the Han Dynasty
GU Li-hua
Characteristic of the time, a system to honor people, including women, who were virtuous, was developed in the Han Dynasty. The system to honor women was motived by the dominating ideology of Confucianism, and a desire to control the public through the promotion of filial piety. Examining the history of the Han Dynasty, women's remarriage after the death of their husbands did exist. Women also resisted their husbands. These phenomena were prevalent though deviating from Confucius teaching. This deviation showed that dominant ideology of the government during the Han Dynasty had less influence on the lives of women.
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Community-based Justice and the Protection of Women's Rights: A Case of Woman Pursuing Separation in the Republic of China
LI Wen-jun
The protection of women's rights is not only a task for legislation but also must be implemented in the administration of justice. How to apply laws to protect women's rights is even critically important. In a case of woman pursuing separation in the Republic of China, the "Civil Code of the Republic of China" did not recognize separation and in face of tradition of civil law, the parties could not assume the right of litigation in pursuit of separation. However, the judge of the case upheld the idea of community-based justice and a social consensus of protecting women's rights in the trial, gave woman the right to pursue separation and preferential treatment in arrangements of rights and obligations after her judicial separation.
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Modern Expressions of Gender: Wang Hanlun's Film Acting and Negotiation of Sex
WANG Qing-yi
Wang Hanlun is "the first female film star in China's history of films." This paper examines the process of modernization of gender in which women gain sense of themselves through their visual images based on the life of Wang Hanlun's film life career. This life is just like what she portrayed in The Abandoned Wife, in which she expressed her own female worldviews. However, her individual efforts appeared to have trivial influence in the negotiation between film images and social roles. The contemporary sexual power eventually dominated the sexual portrait in arts and sexual identity in society.
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Development of a Feminist Perspective in Contemporary Marxist Philosophy: Nancy Hartsock's Dialectical Feminism
LU Jin-qiu
Revisiting Marxism, Nancy Hartsock uses the dialectics of internal relations as an analytical tool to construct dialectical feminism. In a word, her viewpoints include: the concept of the truth based on the dialectic relationships of the truth and the practice, and the truth and the power. She develops the concept of female subject based on the dialectic relationships of subordination and initiative subject, and collective and individual subject. Her social historical views are based on the dialectical relationships between the objectivity of social structure and initiatives of the subject. These dialectics thoughts defend contemporary applications of Marxism and open up a new feminist way of reoccupying Marxism.
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Women's Oppression in the Family-based Mode of Production: Reading The Main Enemy: A Materialist Analysis of Women' s Oppression
XU Chun-rong
In The Main Enemy: A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression, Christine Delphy claims that it is women's specific participation in the family-based mode of production that provides the material root of their oppression. In this analysis, Delphy identifies the problem of women's oppression in the theoretical terrain of historical materialism. By combining Marxism with feminism, she has made great efforts to resolve the theoretical difficulties that faced Marxist feminism.
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Construction of Subjects and Its General Mechanisms：Based on a Survey of Employers of "Sex Industry" and their Presentation When Mentioning "Xiaojie"
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YAO Xing-liang,HUANG Ying-ying,PAN Sui-ming
Based on an interactive community-based investigation, in a commercial sex trade district, from a perspective of establishing subjects in their contextual background, this paper focuses on discrepancies between the construction by owners of bars and dance parlors of sex workers as subjects and discourses they use in the construction, as detected by the application of the following analytical tools, namely, perceptual consciousness, rational choice, dramatic theory and constructivism. In the end, construction of subjects and its general mechanisms are illustrated.
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Reflections on the Book Review Columns of the Collection of Women's Studies
MI Rui-xin
Based on the statistics collected from 2000 to 2011 on the section of Book Reviews and Book Recommendation Column of the Collection of Women's Studies, this paper recognizes that these two sections have grown though there is room for improvement in areas of the originality of reviews, close interactions among readers, potential writers, and the editorial department and improvement of collaboration institutionally in publishing the journal. The paper recommends strengthening reviews of more representative books and pictures and at the same time, building stronger relationship among readers, and potential writers and making book and picture reviews more effective.
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Female Employees in Overseas Tourism
FAN Xiang-li
This paper reviews literature on female employees in oversea tourist industry gathered through on-line search under such keywords as "tourism and gender" , "gender and hotel", "female in tourism", "female and hotel", "gender and hospitality", and so on. 30 articles and books were found related to this theme. These writings mainly focus on three areas: female employees in rural tourism, in overseas tourism, and in tourist businesses. This paper evaluates these writings in light of the three areas based on their research perspectives, research contents, and methodology. It suggests that oversea research in English on female employees in tourist industry is rich in its contents and diversified viewpoints but lack of a framework, an in-depth analysis, and multiplicity of methodology.
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