“Returning Home” or “Being Returned Home”? The Debate over Women Returning to the Home and Changing Values1
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“Returning Home” or “Being Returned Home”? The Debate over Women Returning to the Home and Changing Values1. / Mochou, Zhang; Sørensen, Bo Ærenlund.
Chinese Modernity and Socialist Feminist Theory: By Shaopeng Song. ed. / Sharon Wesoky. Routledge, 2022. p. 90-112.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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T1 - “Returning Home” or “Being Returned Home”?
T2 - The Debate over Women Returning to the Home and Changing Values1
AU - Mochou, Zhang
AU - Sørensen, Bo Ærenlund
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Taylor and Francis.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - In the 1980s, as China was beginning its transition to a market economy, there emerged calls for “women to return home” and to return “reproductive” functions to the private sphere. While often discussed in terms of women’s “choice” to do so in the midst of revivals of “femininity,” this does not adequately show how there were structural factors pushing women back into the home, including the ongoing gendered division of household labor. The public debates about this phenomenon, which continued in different forms in later years, show a transition of the mainstream ideology of Chinese society from the Marxist theory of women’s liberation to a “gender ideology” based in liberalism. Feminist theory requires a critique of this structural oppression created by the transition to marketization.
AB - In the 1980s, as China was beginning its transition to a market economy, there emerged calls for “women to return home” and to return “reproductive” functions to the private sphere. While often discussed in terms of women’s “choice” to do so in the midst of revivals of “femininity,” this does not adequately show how there were structural factors pushing women back into the home, including the ongoing gendered division of household labor. The public debates about this phenomenon, which continued in different forms in later years, show a transition of the mainstream ideology of Chinese society from the Marxist theory of women’s liberation to a “gender ideology” based in liberalism. Feminist theory requires a critique of this structural oppression created by the transition to marketization.
U2 - 10.4324/9781003167884-7
DO - 10.4324/9781003167884-7
M3 - Book chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85143554202
SN - 9780367766443
SP - 90
EP - 112
BT - Chinese Modernity and Socialist Feminist Theory
A2 - Wesoky, Sharon
PB - Routledge
ER -
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