I know that women are traditionally submissive in Chinese culture and maintain very traditional roles. In ancient China, they had their feet bound for beauty, and also to display wealth. Women in the homes are the ultimate caretakers, caring for everyone and and everything, with little credit being given to them; and this is the norm.
Christina, I was thinking each one of us go do a ppt. examining the different roles women have in varying spheres. Such as, women in the home, women in public life (business, political,etc.), and women in education. I know those are pretty broad, but I think it could be a start. We could dedicate a few slides to pre-modern China and then examine specifically current China, and how it has all developed over the years.
Looking at our posts, it looks like we all have pretty negative connotations on what it is to be woman in China, hopefully we will be able to counter that and prove things aren't so bad!
Here are a couple of websites I found. I'm sorry I didn't highlight anything. I can't exactly figure out diigo, but I can show you all tomorrow some things that I noticed and took note on.
http://www.womenofchina.cn/ This is a Chinese website dedicated to women. I feel like this could be a really great resource. It mentions tributes to business women and various groups in China that work for humanitarian issues (ie. women's federation).
I can look at women in education and tie that into women and religion. I can do a sort of overview on the religious and academic life of women. But yes meeting tonight at 8 would be perfect. Just name a time and place and I'll be there!
So as of right now, we have women in policy (Lan), women in the family (Christina), and women in academics and religion? I think that that is a good overview, but whoever wants to go first ( and I can even do if you want or we could put it together tonight and all three of us present it) should include several intro slides about women in China, addressing the generalizations and how they are false, etc, just sort of a where women stand and a very broad explanation of the climate towards women in china.
I think our presentation went very well. I feel like we were able to start broad and work down to a narrower topic, which i think our project strong.Ultimately, we were able to view a wide spectrum of women in China. I agree with Lan in that we were able to show that women in China are progressing towards equality. Also, The class seemed to be interested in what we had to say, which is important. I had a really great time working with Lan and Christina and I think we were successful.
Christina, I was thinking each one of us go do a ppt. examining the different roles women have in varying spheres. Such as, women in the home, women in public life (business, political,etc.), and women in education. I know those are pretty broad, but I think it could be a start. We could dedicate a few slides to pre-modern China and then examine specifically current China, and how it has all developed over the years.
Looking at our posts, it looks like we all have pretty negative connotations on what it is to be woman in China, hopefully we will be able to counter that and prove things aren't so bad!
I'm sorry I didn't highlight anything. I can't exactly figure out diigo, but I can show you all tomorrow some things that I noticed and took note on.
http://www.womenofchina.cn/
This is a Chinese website dedicated to women. I feel like this could be a really great resource. It mentions tributes to business women and various groups in China that work for humanitarian issues (ie. women's federation).
http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/chinwomn.html
This is pretty much an outline of everything we should probably discuss in our project. It's from CUNY- Brooklyn so it's a legitimate article, despite it's appearance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China
I know wikipedia is horrible, but this provides an outline for women in the PRC. If anything it can be a baseline and we can do further research from what we pick up in this article.
This is all just a start, but from what I've seen online there are some great resources.
Also, The class seemed to be interested in what we had to say, which is important. I had a really great time working with Lan and Christina and I think we were successful.