Title: The “Feminine” Kaixuangong Village: Commemoration of the 80 Year Anniversary of Fei Xiaotong’s Peasant Life in China
Lecturer: JIN Yihong (Professor, Women’s Studies Department, Ginling Women’s College, Nanjing Normal University)
Chairperson: WANG Yan (Department of History, East China Normal University)
Date: 2 pm, June 16th, 2017 (Friday)
Venue: Room 5303, Building of School of Humanities, Minhang Campus, ECNU
Sponsor: Si-mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, ECNU
Abstract of the Lecture:
Fei Xiaotong recognized a gender system in the fieldwork of Yangzi and Yunnan villages. However, in the rural patrilineal economy, “women’s work in weaving and spinning” was still considered subsidiary to “men’s work in farmland” and was underestimated in the labor system. Jin Yihong attempts to describe women’s production and reproduction from a perspective different from male scholars’ and reveal the “feminine” side of the rural labor.
Brief Introduction of the Lecturer:
JIN Yihong, Professor in Women’s Studies Department, Ginling Women’s College, Nanjing Normal University. Publications include: The Decline of Patriarchy -- Gender Studies in the Social Transformation of Jiangnan Villages, Sichuan renmin chubanshe, 2000; The Fluid Patriarchy: Studies on the Gender Transformation in China’s New Countryside. Nanjing shifan daxue chubanshe, 2015.