EAST 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Edward Burnett Tylor, Beihang University, White
15 May 2018
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New Challenges for Women in Mainland China
• Institutionalized gender norms
• The revitalization of ritualism
o Campaign against 4 olds (which included ritualism); ideally ritualism would have been
eradicated in mainland China, but this wasn't the case
• The fight for gender equality
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• Most soiologists agee that istitutioalized gede os pla a ke ole i this ialae.
Stereotypes, like the false notion that men are naturally better than women at math, sit alongside
traditional gender roles dictating that men should be breadwinners and women should handle
doesti affais.
http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1002051/is-gender-equality-at-chinese-colleges-a-sham%3f
Is Gede Eualit at Chiese Colleges a “ha? Xu Douduo 8
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• What is happening to poor women?
• Stereotype: women are good at arts and men are good at math/science
• More women in literature, more men in engineering
• Other issues: sexual violence and sexual harassment
http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1002051/is-gender- equality-at-chinese-colleges-asham%3F
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• 1980s: most women were rejected by universities
• Newer issues: China is still far from gender equality in education; there are rich women in
universities, but no poor women
o Sexual division of labour
o Women's choice of major is influenced by gender norms but this is seen as a choice
Is Gede Eualit at Chiese Colleges a “ha? Xu Douduo 8
• Tylor found the Marxist approach problematic because he said 'is it appropriate to homogenize
men and women - is there really no difference between the 2? Ignoring the gender difference is
just as problematic as maintaining the difference"
• Parents see the difference but hope that their daughters will end up with more traits associated
with masculinity
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Document Summary
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