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Group 6 (Women in China) - 39 views

  • Christina D'Ambrogio
     
    I know that the traditional roles of women in China was to take care of the family, bear many children, especially boys, and obey her parents and husband, and probably obey her mother-in-law and father-in-law. I would say that the women's status would be near the bottom of the totem pole.

    I'll search and see what I can find about the traditional views of what a Chinese woman role was in the family.

    Rachel, what were you saying at the end of class today about women's roles in different environments?
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  • Christina D'Ambrogio
     
    http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~jejackso/Family%20Formations.htm
    I found this source that gives a brief summary of what the women's role in the family is. It starts from the paragraph, "The familial role..." I highlighted it using Diigo. I hope it works and you can see what I highlighted. Professor, is this a legal source? Its from a professor's webpage who works at Mount Holyoke College.

    http://www.chinavoc.com/history/tang/women.htm
    This link is pretty good in talking about the women's role in society and in family life during the Tang dynasty. Also, if you link on "Song" on the left side and click "Outstanding Female Li Qingzhao", then they talk about Li Qingzhao who was a famous female poet of this time. This shows that women were trying to break away from the traditional views and gain their own voice. This link would definitely work well with our topic of Women's role in education.

    http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/modules/lesson10/lesson10.php?s=2
    This link is a excerpt of a newspaper article written in 1890 for a Shanghai newspaper. I think its really good in stating what Confucius views were in relation to women, and the author states how these views have negatively effected the lives of Chinese women, whether it be wives or daughters.

    http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/modules/lesson10/lesson10.php?s=1
    Here I highlighted a line in an article from 1843 that states Confucianism is the primary offender of why Chinese women has experienced a lot of pain and sorrow and why they weren't able to have a lot of advances in education and society. This is the line I highlighted. Its in the second paragraph:
    "Confucian philosophy has done its best to unfit a Chinese for the possession of such an heritage, by assigning to woman nothing but the privilege of drudging for her lord."

    I have to go to class now, but I'll find more stuff later on today.
  • Christina D'Ambrogio
     
    http://www.bellaonline.org/articles/art29973.asp
    Brief summary of Chinese women role in the household and it specifically states that its a different view than what we traditionally negatively think of what the role of a Chinese women is.

    http://www.buzzle.com/articles/women-in-the-ancient-chinese-culture.html
    This is another summary of what we've been talking about...plus it gives two famous women in ancient China (Empress Wu and Xi Shi) if we want to mention them.

    http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/articles/article/China/Women-in-Chinese-Culture/1788
    This talks a little bit about employment and education for Chinese women, and the last paragraph I highlighted says how rural women still don't have that great of opportunities to get a good education as women in urban areas.

    So how exactly are we breaking this up into three parts?
    I understand how we can talk about "The women's role in the family/household comparing ancient times to now", "The women's role in receiving an education and contributing to education comparing ancient times to now", but what is exactly our third topic? Is it famous Chinese women throughout history? I don't know if we'd have enough material to talk about Chinese women's role in the workforce.

    I'll cover women's role in the household...what do you guys want to do? Do you want to meet later tomorrow night (like after 8pm) to have an idea of exactly what each of us are saying?
  • Christina D'Ambrogio
     
    Hey Rachel,

    Come to our dorm room at 8pm...we're in Loyola 146. My number is 508-713-2777 if you need to get in.
  • Christina D'Ambrogio
     
    This is my reflection on the presentation: I think our presentation went well and we all did a good job. Our presentations tided together well, so I think that was a good concept that we had. It seemed like people paid attention and got a good understanding of women's roles in china because they contributed to our discussion at the end.
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