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Women and the Family in Rural Taiwan Margery Wolf

Women and the Family in Rural Taiwan By Margery Wolf

Women and the Family in Rural Taiwan by Margery Wolf


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Studies of Chinese society commonly emphasize men's roles and functions, a not unreasonable approach to a society with patrilineal kinship structure. This book seeks to fill some of these gaps by examining the ways rural Taiwanese women manipulate men and each other in the pursuit of their personal goals.

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Women and the Family in Rural Taiwan Summary

Women and the Family in Rural Taiwan by Margery Wolf

Studies of Chinese society commonly emphasizze men's roles and functions, a not unreasonable approach to a society with patrilineal kinship structure. But this emphasis has left many important gaps in our knowledge of Chinese life.

This study seeks to fill some of these gaps by examining the ways rural Taiwanese women manipulate men and each other in the pursuit of their personal goals. The source of a woman's power, her home in a social structure dominated by men, is what the author calls the uterine family, a de facto social unity consisting of a mother and her children.

The first four chapters are devoted to general background material: a brief historical sketch of Taiwan and a description fo the settings in which the author's observations were made; the history of a particular family; the relation of Chinese women to the Chinese kinship system; and the interrelationships among women in the community. The remaining ten chapters take up in detail the successive stages of the Taiwanese woman's life cycle: infancy, childhood, engagement, marriage, motherhood, and old age. Throught the book the author presents detailed information on such topics as marriage negotiations, childbirth, child training practices, and the organization of women's groups.

Women and the Family in Rural Taiwan Reviews

'A fascinating ethnographic account ... Wolf provides an admirable account of the ways in which Taiwanese culture relegates its women to a secondary status in all stages of their life cycles. The description here is vivid, rich, humane, and often intricate ... A welcome addition to the literature on Asian societies.' G. N. Ramu, Rural Sociology

Table of Contents

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CIN0804708495G
9780804708494
0804708495
Women and the Family in Rural Taiwan by Margery Wolf
Used - Good
Paperback
Stanford University Press
19720601
236
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