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RWMCH
Vol. 39
ISSN：
1029-4759
Date：
2022-6
Softcover：200 TWD
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Pages：
160
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16 K
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Abstract：
本期收學術論文三篇：周叙琪著〈近代臺灣女性日記中的家政與家—以《陳岺女士日記》為例〉、邱大昕著〈我不是「盲妹」：近代華人女性盲人的生命故事〉、劉斐玟著〈女書四十年—學術力、傳承力和文化政治力〉。
Contents
Articles
Women’s Diaries from Modern Taiwan: Insights into Housekeeping and Domestic Life from
Ms. Chen Ling’s Diary
[Abstract]
Chou Hsu-chi
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Jiazheng
or “domestic work” has been a core area of concern for Marxist feminist scholars, yet due to the limitations of available documents, historical knowledge of women’s experiences in housework has been rather scarce. With the publication of a range of women’s diaries in recent years, there is new impetus for historical discussion. One such diary is that of Ms. Chen Ling, who was a concubine of Lin Jitang in Wufeng. This diary contains rich documentation of housekeeping life, permitting a richer analysis of women’s own historical narration of housekeeping work and more comprehensive analysis of domestic work and life. This paper constitutes a case-study analysis of
Ms. Chen Ling’s Diary
from these vantage points.
The case study of
Ms. Chen Ling's Diary
sheds light on rivalry in gender relations throughout this transitional period in China's social transformation from traditional norms to modernity. It also reveals how widowed women used social support systems to fill the labor gap left by the death of their husband, thereby rebuilding the meaning of home and enjoying more rich and autonomous spheres of domestic living. On the other hand, the financial and social assistance provided by the patriarch gradually developed into a policy of supporting orphans, highlighting the role which patriarchs harboring enlightened, new ideas would have on members in the domestic sphere, which also contributed to the expansion of concubines’ living space as well as the diversification of female roles in the clan. Overall, the experiences of women’s housework as documented in
Ms. Chen Ling’s Diary
reveals that the main responsibility of the hostess was to “command and supervise”, with the main focus on “women’s moral conduct” (conduct showing respect for their husband and courteous comportment.) These responsibilities and perspectives vastly differ from ideas on female domestic labor and the scientific management of domestic family life in the modern period.
Keyword
：Keywords: home economics, concubines, diaries, housekeeping, gender relations
I Am Not a “Blind Girl”: The Life Stories of Modern Chinese Women with Visual Impairments
[Abstract]
Chiu Tasing
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67
In the 19th century, Western missionaries established schools for the blind in China, which have often been regarded as the beginning of special education in modern China. However, there is a dearth of research on the impact of these schools on blind students, particularly from their own perspectives. To address this lacuna, the present article compares the life stories of two women, Agnes Gützlaff (1836–1869?) and Cheng Wenhui 程文輝 (1936–2011), who were born blind a century apart. By examining their life stories, this study investigates the effects of education on blind women from diverse social backgrounds and how it has evolved over time, and consequently, desires to attract more academic attention to this important issue.
Keyword
：Keywords: history of the blind ness , education of the blind, disability history, disability and gender, special education
Forty Years of Nüshu: Research, Practice, and Cultural Politics
[Abstract]
Liu Fei-wen
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Nüshu
, the world’s only “women’s script” which circulated in Jiangyong county of Hunan province in southern China and is on the verge of extinction, has now survived into its fortieth year since it was first discovered in 1982. Over the four decades, three social forces—namely, scholarly efforts to investigate and preserve the writing tradition of the peasant class, nüshu inheritors with diverse backgrounds emerging to continue the practice, and the local government’s administration and cultural politics—have infused various streams of vitality into this endangered heritage. But is this “vitality” meant to perpetuate the old tradition or to revitalize it into a new legacy? This article examines the changes and challenges the above three social forces have brought to nüshu in the past forty years, and through the lenses of materiality, practice, and relationship (specifically, power relations and dialogic interactions), also discusses the different meanings of nüshu in contemporary society. By recording the historical process by which nüshu has moved into modern times, I wish that the cultural spirit of nüshu as a women’s expressive tradition, imbued with empowering energy and peasant women’s “collective sentimental consciousness,” will neither fall into oblivion nor be overwritten by its contemporary manifestation, but rather have its place in history.
Keyword
：n üshu wome n’s script, Chinese women’s writing, intangible cultural heritage, c ultural politics
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