Revolutionization And Socialization

In this paper, "Yimeng Women" refers in particular to the female sex populationlived in Yimeng area which is a red area with typical intension in thirties and fortiesof the 20^th century.Yimeng Women were regard as a part-of social change in the background ofrevolution. In the period of the War of Resistance Against Japan and the war ofliberation, the Communist Party of China promulgated a series of law and regulationto protect women's rights in the lately-established revolution base area, whichvacillate the situation of male superiority and female inferiority with no change forthousand years initially. It also triggered off a series of change of female personalpart, family part and social part. It is an important glass for seeing through thesociety of base area to investigate these changes, and is contributing to study socialhistory of revolution base area. During the revolution process of national liberationand class liberation in Yimeng area in the 20th century, the level of women'sliberation can reflect the level of social's liberation more profoundly and moreintently. In the process of taking part in revolution with man, women changed theirself-consciousness, on the whole, which is coincident with the progress of socialdeveloping. So, it is contributing to understand Chinese social progress to analyzesexual role, main part consciousness and social position of Yimeng Women in socialrevolution proceeding of Yimeng area in thirties and forties of the 20^th century. Onthe other side, as the typical sample of Chinese traditional culture and revolutionculture in the 20th century, the awaken of female liberation consciousness and thecarrying out of women's exercise-in Yimeng area are more typical and morethoroughly than other old revolutionary base areas. The female's liberationconsciousness and the process of women exercise displayed the experience andprecept since the new democratic revolution in the 20^th century. It has a certaininternal relation with the constructive thinking of the revolution. Or it can be say thatit was carried on under the direct of this kind of revolutionary thinking. So, itsanalysis contributes to understanding the influence of constructive thinking toChinese revolution progress in the 20th century more thoroughly.The departure point of this paper is the earnest concern on Yimeng Women'sfate in the background of social revolution in thirties and forties of the 20th century.According to describe the living environment, marriage home life, political life, economic life, cultural life and social psychology of Yimeng Women in the period ofthe War of Resistance against Japan and the war of liberation, a history pictureshowing Yimeng Women's life are outlined. It is tried to state women's history memory and feeling with "female sound" and give "female explanation" to somehistory events we have known intimately and some culture phenomenon. It is tried toapprove female being and give a new visual angle with one or more thinking tohistorical science with women's states. Moreover, women are never being isolated. Female's misery and liberation just are the component part of "big history", and theirsound must be the echo of history. They can not overstep era and be out and awaythe others. So in this paper, the social changes happened in Yimeng area in the periodof the War of Resistance against Japan and the war of liberation are scrutinized in anew angle through women as a social colony.It is studied along above clues in this paper. There are nine chapters in thispaper besides introduction and conclusion. The research object, range of research, academic present conditions, documents published data, the main research contentand creative point of this paper are introduced in the introduction. In chapter one theenvironments that Yimeng Women rely for existence are introduced in. three aspects, such as natural geography environment, history humanities environment and agesbackground. From chapter two to chapter seven the changes of Yimeng Women inpersonal appearance, marriage and family life, social practice life, social economiclife, spiritual and cultural life and social mentality are elaborated respectively. In theconclusion there are the summing-up of the full text and further thinking. Accordingto above-mentioned researches, this paper gets some conclusions as follows.Firstly, in order to remold female image from the family role toward social roleand make women to attend whole people anti-Japanese and production sport, it isnecessary to liberate women both on the body and in the thought. In thirties andforties of the 20^th century, the bodies of Yimeng Women were endued withcompletely meaning. in the background of revolution. Some body's changes, such asputting feet, cutting hair and giving birth, had been a part of revolutionary policies,which aim was to awake their consciousness as human being and social human.Secondly, the revolution gave Yimeng Women a chance to change their personalmarriage and family condition. In thirties and forties of the 20^th century, someenlightened women in part of Yimeng area changed gradually from arrangedmarriage and child bride to freely marriage. Through improve the politics andeconomy position to raise the family position of women. So women has the equalityof marriage and the harmonious family. Then Yimeng Women has initiative toconstruct the base area and assist the war.In other side, we should know that the revolution can make the new tragedymarriage. In the age full of revolution ideology, the marriage of part Yimeng Womenbecame vassal of revolution, and were given chastity view for revolution butsacrifice personal benefits. At the same time, they had not thrown off traditional feudal norms.Thirdly, the change of female political life in Yimeng area in thirties and fortiesof the 20^th century liberated women from family. It is the first time to promote inhistory that women and men had equal rights in economy and politics. Equality ofmen and women became one part and a kind of system of new social general ordersin liberated area. The viewpoint of Equality of men and women was not onlyproposed in ideology region of policy but also implemented in actual political life tosome extent. Political practice became the main outside manifestation of YimengWomen heading to socialization.Fourthly, in thirties and forties of the 20^th century the women of Yimeng areahad to undertake the heavy responsibility of producing and working after the man goto front line. The women were more than subsidiary and adherent in family life andsocial life. They changed mostly from depending on men. completely tomanufacturing independently, which could make human relations in society ofcountryside change importantly. It also gave women authority and right to speak foragricultural production and domestic economy, and enhanced women's competenceand self independent thought. Because their important beam effect for socialeconomy, public opinion began understand and account women renewedly. Socialhonor and respect are the security of social psychology and materiality for women topromote their social position. So it can be. say that women's taking part in socialproduction is the need to social progress.Fifthly, the culture life in Yimeng revolution old liberated area in thirties andforties of the 20^th century are different from before revolution in which there is onlysimple material life. Revolution enriched the mental world of Yimeng revolution oldliberated area. Especially, Yimeng Women derived knowledge from all kinds ofeducations and abundant culture life, which widened their view, Cleared away theirself-abased psychology, advanced their national and political consciousness. Theylearned production skills and changed the old viewpoint that a woman without talentis virtuous, which raised Yimeng Women's overall quality. In conclusion, the changeof women's culture life and the raise of cultural level, play an important role inraising women's position.Sixthly, in thirties and forties of the 20th century Yimeng Women's socialconsciousness changed greatly under the effect of war. It was mainly expressed bythe appearance of political consciousness, the enhancement of collectiveconsciousness and the change of traditional consciousness. These changes reflect thegreat advancement of Yimeng Women's position in politics, economics and society, and also the advanced tendency of political democracy and social civilization ofYimeng area in this period. Different from western middle class women, Yimeng Women's awaken mostlyoriginate from national revolution but not women's liberation. Their nationalconsciousness is higher greatly than female consciousness and personalconsciousness. So the distinctive characters of Chinese women liberation is not onlythat the class is in the deepness of female consciousness, but also that it is implicatedtightly with nationality and country.According to arranging Yimeng Women's life changing track in thirties andforties of the 20th century, it can be found that Yimeng Women have undergone arevolutionization and socialization journey in which the revolutionization andsocialization are also inconsistent. The contradictory between sameness and conflictare exhibited.The change of Yimeng Women's life in thirties and forties of the 20^th century iscarried on under the name of revolution. Women's liberation became an importantpart of revolutionary cause. The revolution war and women's relieves constitute thesocial cultural phenomenon of constituting two integral whole. The women'smovement and social revolution have public conformity and subtle nervous relation. By coming through the baptism of the war Yimeng Women gained liberation. Whenwe are confirming its progress, we should notice the anisomerous phenomenonbetween revolutionary character of class and nationality and humanism of individual. In other words, cultural context of revolutionary war can not, resolve the problem offemale liberation, not do in the female noumenal value. From the change of YimengWomen's life, it can be discovered that all they did during the revolution was toadapt to class struggle even more, and less to their needs as female. That they tookup in revolutionary war was for relieving social oppression and economicaloppression, but not for their rights as women. They paid anything for revolution. Atthe same time, they spared no effort to make a blueprint of future. The antinomy ofspirit and reality made their minds endured by hardship doubly. A long-term greateffort was needed to relieve women thoroughly.