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Reconceiving Women's Equality in China - A Critical Examination of Models of Sex Equality (Hardcover)
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Reconceiving Women's Equality in China - A Critical Examination of Models of Sex Equality (Hardcover)
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According to the author, the subordination of Chinese women
continued under different models of sex equality in China in
twentieth century. In Reconceiving Women's Equality in China Lijun
Yuan discusses and assesses four models of women s equality: first,
the traditional Confucian view of women which advocates that women
s role is to follow and support men; second, the liberal feminist
idea of formal equality for women introduced into China at the
beginning of the twentieth century, which is anti-Confucian and
advocates women s equal rights in education, law, and employment;
third, Mao s view of women s equality in production, calling for
substantive equality between men and women; finally, the idea of
equal opportunity in the economic transformation in the post-Mao
period, the revival of Confucianism in this period and its
convergence with the declining status of women. According to Yuan,
each of these models has a variety of problems in dealing with
women s equality. However, she sees one common thread running
through all of them, namely, lack of emphasis on empowering women
to develop their own visions of equality. Ideologies imposed from
the top-down have rationalized the continuing subordination and
exploitation of women, either blatantly (Confucianism) or more
subtly (Maoism). After exposing the common feature in their failure
to reach the social ideal of women s equality, the author proposes
a more democratic conception of women s equality that will allow
ideals to continue changing as material circumstances change in
different stages of social development. This book is a seminal work
of research on the status of women in China during and after Mao's
cultural revolution. It is essential to studies of Chinese society,
politics, and religion, as well as to women's studies and
philosophy."
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