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Women Labour Models and Socialist Transformation in early 1950s China

Spakowski, Nicola

International review of social history, 2022-04, Vol.67 (S30), p.131-154 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

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  • Título:
    Women Labour Models and Socialist Transformation in early 1950s China
  • Autor: Spakowski, Nicola
  • Assuntos: Asian cultural groups ; Communism ; Comparable worth ; Developing countries ; Fairness ; Fame ; Female employees ; Feminism ; Identity formation ; Interpersonal relations ; Labor ; LDCs ; Modernity ; Political parties ; Propaganda ; Social history ; Social relations ; Socialism ; Socialist societies ; Society ; State-society relations ; Transformation ; Women ; Women's Rights and Global Socialism ; Working women
  • É parte de: International review of social history, 2022-04, Vol.67 (S30), p.131-154
  • Descrição: This article investigates Chinese women labour models (or labour heroines) of the early 1950s as actors and symbols of socialist transformation. It centres on the example of Shen Jilan (1929–2020), who was one of the most prominent women labour models of the time. Shen rose to fame through her struggle for equal pay for equal work in her native village, became a delegate to China's National People's Congress, and even participated in the Third World Congress of Women in Copenhagen in 1953. The article critically engages with the concept of “state feminism” and proposes a shift in focus from state–society relations to work as a means to understanding the transformation of women's lives under socialism. Socialist society was a society of producers and work shaped people's daily lives; it was central to identity formation and constituted the regulating mechanism of social relations. Indeed, women labour models, together with related categories of working women, came to typify the new Chinese woman, who was integral to and symbolic of socialist modernity. They epitomized communist theory about women's participation in production being the mechanism of their liberation. The article has three main parts, each of which addresses a different level (local, national, international), different constellations of actors and agency, and different aspects of the relationship between working women and socialist transformation. By tracing Shen Jilan's activities in various contexts, the article reveals the complexity, contradictions, multilayered nature, and also incompleteness of socialist transformation.
  • Editor: Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
  • Idioma: Inglês
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