Women in China: Studies in Social Change and Feminism PDF
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THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES MICHIGAN PAPERS IN CHINESE STUDIES NO. 15 WOMEN IN CHINA Studies In Social Change and Feminism Edited by Marilyn B. Young Ann Arbor Center for Chinese Studies The University of Michigan 1973 Copyright © 1973 by Center for Chinese Studies The University of Michigan Printed in the United States of America Of course it was necessary to give them [women] legal equality to begin with I But from there on, every thing still remains to be done. The thought, culture, and customs which brought China to where we found her must disappear, and the thought, customs, and culture of proletarian China, which does not yet exist, must appear. The Chinese woman does not yet exist either, among the masses; but she is beginning to want to ex ist. And then to liberate women is not to manufacture washing machines—and to liberate their husbands is not to manufacture bicycles but to build the Moscow subway. Mao Tse-tung to André Malraux c. 1958 (from Anti-mémoires) From the family album of Ma Ching-heng, Department of Far Eastern Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan. Picture taken in the late 1920s. Contents Introduction Marilyn B. Young............................................................................... 1 Mao Tse-tung, Women and Suicide Roxane W ilke....................................................................................... 7 Woman as Politician in China of the 1920s Roxane W ltke....................................................................................... 33 Chinese Women in the Early Communist Movement Suzette L eith....................................................................................... 47 Women in die Liberated Areas Delia Davin........................................................................................... 73 Institutionalized Motivation for Fertility Limitation Janet Salaff........................................................................................... 93 Women and Revolution: The Lessons of the Soviet Union and China Janet Salaff and Judith M erlde....................................................... 145 A Response to "Women and Revolution" Nancy M ilton..........................................................................................179 Women Hold Up Half the Sky Jane B arrett..........................................................................................193 Women's liberation Soong Ching-ling..................................................................................201 Liberation of Women Lu Yu-lan 205 The Status of Women in Taiwan: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back Norma Diamond......................................................................................211 Bibliography..................................................................................................243 Notes on Contributors..............................................................................257
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