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8F, Room 802, Institute of Sociology, South Wing, Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Academia Sinica
- Speaker Name
Chin-Fen Chang Research Fellow (Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica)
- State
Definitive
- Url
2024-05-17 14:30 - 17:00
Discussants:
Ching-Cheng Liu (Adjunct Professors, Department of History, National Cheng Kung University)
Mau-Kuei Chang (Adjunct Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica)
Host:
Hsuan-Wei Lee (Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica)
Women died in and suffered from the war, also made efforts to protect the country, but their war-time experiences and contributions to save life are underrepresented in the history. The study attempts to show that women were never absent from the battle field but only made invisible. This empirical study utilized data consisting of interviews to more than 20 Mainland-Chinese women exiled to Taiwan in the 1940/50s. Adopting the insights and methods of ground theory, the study revised and changed the focus of research questions in the interviewing process and extracted sociological implications from their life-running experiences. These respondents were brought up in a patriarchal society in China, seemingly empowered by the thoughts of gender equality and marriage freedom emerging from the 1920s, experienced the hardship of exile journeys during the periods of Sino-Chinese War and Civil War, and settled down in Taiwan. Accidentally, owing to the intersections of war, political and societal factors, these Mainland women were able to become the master of their family and live their life without following patrilineal rituals and instructions from parents-in-law like their mothers and female ancestors did. The study reviews the pressure and control of women by familism and filial piety embedded in Chinese culture reflecting on the women’s agency shown in the efforts to protect and rebuild the family.
Speaker
The speaker’s research focus on the sociology of labor, gender studies, and social stratification. She is the author of Salary and Sacrifices: Analyzing Labor Outcomes of Medical Personnel from a Gender Perspective，Sociology of Labor，The Privatization of State-Owned Enterprises in Taiwan. She also co-edited Embodiment in Work: Performing Gender and Labor at the Workplace in Taiwan.
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