By Margery Wolf
ISBN-10: 0585292752
ISBN-13: 9780585292755
ISBN-10: 0804713480
ISBN-13: 9780804713481
The Communist revolution promised chinese language ladies an finish to millions of years of subjugation, an equality with males in all issues criminal, political, social, and financial. This ebook examines the level to which this promise has been stored. in line with approximately a yr of box examine and interviews with over three hundred ladies in six commonly separated rural and concrete components, it offers us a brilliant photograph of chinese language girls this day - their daily lives, their perspectives of the current, and their hopes for the longer term. thus far not anything approximating equality has been completed: in operating stipulations, in pay, in academic chance. within the towns, and to a lesser quantity within the nation-state, ladies are than in pre-revolutionary China. yet nowhere other than within the rhetoric of the regime are they equivalent to males. Nor does the fast destiny glance a lot brighter, given the ongoing social constraints, the government's debatable kinfolk hassle software, and the character of the recent monetary regulations brought in 1980. as far as attainable, the ladies interviewed are allowed to talk for themselves. a few take safe haven in the back of executive slogans, a few are shy or cautious, yet a stunning quantity are quickly to offer their very own critiques regardless of an ever-present govt cadre. those evaluations, mixed with the author's astute observations on their neighborhood and nationwide context, upload as much as a unconditionally new viewpoint on an all too common challenge.
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So, the fact that women "owned" land was rendered impotent by the fact that women themselves remained the property of men who still could transfer them and their property with a fair amount of ease. Whatever women's legal rights, their actual control over the means of production or even over their own bodies did not change much as the result of land reform. By 1953 reports of the failures in the implementation of the Marriage Law were made public, both as a nudge to factions within the government who preferred not to move at all on family reform issues and as the start of a campaign to spread knowledge Page 20 about the law's intent.
This land became a new item in marriage negotiations. 19 If the kind of publicity and education given to the principles of land reform had been applied to the Marriage Law at the same time, the developing contradictions might eventually have been resolved. But at that point the government needed to convince the rural male community that the benefits associated with support for the CCP were immediate and personal. To give land was an enormous gift, but to take away male authority over the other half of society was a threat more basic than a new revolution could tolerate.
I will find such an one, and marry you to him. " I assented to this, for I saw that the children would otherwise starve. So my husband himself secretly took me and the children to Kam E, the village in which I was born, and to the house of the man to whom he had engaged me. He got five pounds for me and the children. He did not let anyone know about my going, because if people had known it, all the poor of the village would have come out and intercepted us on the road, and made him pay them a fine.
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