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2011 Vol.0 Issue.1
Published 2011-01-15
CONTENTS
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Gender Trait, Body Practice and Health Risk Behavior
LIN Xiao-shan
Health risk behavior is an important aspect of constructing gender identity, which includes different body practices in relation to gender trait. In the practice of femininity, the female body is viewed as defective and needs to be reshaped by modern medical technology and thus, enters in health risk behavior. And in the practice of masculinity, the male body is considered as superior to female and needs to demonstrate his superiority by way of harming himself. Both female and male are suffer from health risks through such body practices of ascribing to femininity and masculinity. In the male-dominated society, not only female bodies are confronted by great risks, male bodies are also victims of this gendered hierarchy.
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Responses to Impacts of Climate Change on Women
CEN Jian-mei
While Climate Change is causing more and more concerns, we should not ignore one of the most vulnerable groups--women, especially those women in poor areas. Climate Change brings more serious natural disasters, shortage of food and water, increasing migration, and more threats to people's health. Considering women's physiological characteristics and inequality between women and men in society, we recognize that women are facing more serous challenges than men in front of climate change. It is necessary for research to focus on women in climate change. Therefore, the paper raises several suggestions to prevent adverse consequences that climate change might bring to women, by making women more adaptive to climate change and society more equal and strong.
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Factors Influencing Rural Women's Awareness of Gender Roles in China: Based on the Data of CGSS2006
CHEN Ting-ting
Based on 2006 General Social Survey (CGSS2006) data, this paper discusses the differences in gender awareness among rural women，urban women and rural men. A review of previous studies has generated a theory framework of gender awareness of rural women. Multiple regression analysis shows that the educational level of rural women and that of their mother, their work experience, their social interaction with people in and outside of their villages, and their participation in social group activities all have an significant influence on rural women's awareness of gender roles. In order to enhance the rise of rural women's gender consciousness, we should broaden rural women's social participation in community and society through raising their levels of education and labor force participation.
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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
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.
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Defeminization of Women Village Leaders: Sex, Gender and Leadership
GAO Huan-qing, LI Qin
This paper examines the state of "defeminization" of women village leaders based on a hypothesis of whether or not women have weaker leadership skills than men and this weak leadership skill is a contributing factor in "defeminization." Using the international 2T leadership style model, it discusses the difference in "what it is" and "what ought to be" women village leaders' participation in governance. On the latter, there is only the question of whether or not the work assigned to women is appropriate when there is no gender difference in leadership effectiveness. On the former, "defeminization" of women village leaders is caused by the reinforcement of values by the existing systems and conditions. The conclusion is that the joint advantage of "maleness" and "femaleness" of women village leaders has encouraged the rise of "gender neutrality" in women leaders leadership style.
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Gender Values from a Woman Village Chief
GAO Xiu-juan
This paper discusses three levels of gender-based values through a case study of the experience of a woman village chief. These levels of values are found in a) life style and daily life activities; b) gender-based division of labor in and outside of households; and c) double standards in gender-based values. Through analysis of the transmission of gender-based values in a village, the paper examines changes in village culture. For instance, alongside the weakening of geographical differences in village culture, traditional moral rules are dissipating. Alongside changes in value systems, damaging influence of public opinions is weakening. With the onset of changes in village structure, value systems are also changing.
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Study of Female Migrant Sex Workers——Using District Y of City L As an Example
LI Juan
Since the end of the 1970s, commercial sexual services reappeared in mainland China, and expanded rapidly across the country in the recent decades. It has become a serious social problem. Compared to existing studies, this article adopts a gender perspective and the perspective of the subject to highlight female sex workers' subjective feelings, and to try to understand their position and how they interpret their involvement in "sexual services". In the course of the study, we have used in-depth interviews to get first-hand materials from respondents directly involved in the study. The article focuses on migrant female sex workers in rural areas, though they are placed within the whole women's employment groups. We pay attention to the reason why they entered the sex industry, as well as to the life experiences after they entered the sex industry; finally, on the basis of investigation, we put forward some proposals to solve the problem.
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Chinese Communist Party's Praxis with Women's Political Participation during the Democratic Revolutionary Era: A Multidimensional Assessment
LI Xiao-guang, WU Guo-qing
The Chinese Communist Party took up the task of liberation of women together with the liberation of oppressed classes through revolution during the New Democratic Revolutionary Era. Under the guidance of Marxist outlook on women, the liberated areas established systems to promote women's participation in politics. Although the emphasis on priority of class liberation, male-dominated politics and traditional gender-based values created a dependency status of women's political participation in the communist political system, mechanisms that had been set up to promote women's political participation had challenged the male-dominated political structure. They had also helped spread the notion of gender equality and lay an important foundation for gaining equality in politics since the founding of the People's Republic.
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From Object to Subject: Changes in Women's Marital Rights at the Early Nationalist Period Using Resolution Cases of Marital Disputes Handled by the Da Li Yuan
XU Jing-li
In traditional marriage system and practice, women were not subjects but only objects as they were assigned to their subordinate marital status in marriage agreements and forced to perform their duty in the implementation of marital agreements. In dissolution of marital agreements they were the targets of parents at either side, which did not change in the Civil Code of the early Nationalist period. However, the Da Li Yuan at the time was under the influence of western philosophy underlying the practice of civil code and the women's movements in the country and started to change its interpretation of the Effective Section of the Current Law on Civil Affairs in judgments, which indicated the rise of women's marital rights in a shift of their position from being the object to the subject of marriage.
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Facing Painful Self: Female and Reproduction in View of Women's Literature
LIU Yuan-yuan
As the bearer of reproduction, women's knowledge of the pains in relation to reproduction represents their sense of self and the outside as well as their understanding of how to deal with the two. When women entered into the enterprise of writing history, reproduction as their unique gender-based experience has become a base for their thinking and expression. When women write about their experience of reproduction, they offer us a chance to see how women transform from an instrument of reproduction to a carrier of creation of life and how their bodily experience with reproduction affects their sense of self as carriers and the awakening of their sense of life and visa versa. Women can only break through the pains of reproduction as a person not as a woman and become mothers of wholesome and healthy person once they have gained spiritual liberation and independence as human being.
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From Destruction to Reconstruction: An Analysis of Western Feminist Approach to the Relationship between Women and Nature
SHI Bi-qiu, LI Xiao-zhe
Owing to discriminatory marriage of women and nature in western political culture, western feminists still face multi-dimensional choices on the question of women-nature relationship. One choice is clearly a shift of an analytical approach from destruction to reconstruction. This approach has encouraged one to reconsider the concepts of women, natural and of the relationship between women and nature.
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New Developments in Feminist Economics: Globalization and Care Work and Viewing Development and Climate Change from a Perspective of Freedom and Belonging
CUI Shao-zhong
Feminist economics is a newly rising branch of economics and has contributed to the studies of globalization and care work. At the same time, it has made advancement in search of philosophical grounds of development, emphasizing "development from the perspective of freedom and belonging" and thus placing sense and sensitivity, freedom and belonging at the same levels and addressing the shortcoming of only viewing "development from the perspective of freedom." Feminist economics is opening up new areas of research and has developed its own perspective of climate change, which gives an important perspective on developing responses to climate change.
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