Marriage, Family, Fertility And Women's Status

In recent years, along with the social economy, the development of culture and marriage and family ethics construction progress, national minority women's status has obvious rise, especially in the family, minority the improvement of women's social status is be obvious to all. Husband and wife of gender equality modern permeates gradually in people's thought, the women of the social role and male family roles, people have different degrees of identity; Husband and wife is the housework processing take consultation form, family democracy gradually become mainstream, birth ideas has also had the major changes, people started to pursue high quality marriage family life and so on, these facts have appeared for minority women the promotion of the position of family laid a solid foundation. Dong women as a Chinese minority women in the army a major part of, their status increased significantly. Therefore, the paper will be selected in Guizhou province is located in qiandongnan dong village-a shi village do investigation and study of anthropology, the technique of ethnography describe shi village women in marriage, family and the family status changes, mainly through the following several aspects to illustrate:From spouse to see, shi village women's marriage autonomy more and more high, choose a spouse standard and mating occurs the way bigger change, no longer is the past simple "Xing Ge ZuoYe" means, but more and more diverse, choose a spouse standard by the past single only see the ability evolution and the ability of economic conditions today for both. And on the way in selecting a spouse, compared to men, women and some relative spouse passive. No matter which way a spouse, ultimately, the man is home to propose the initiative to achieve. In the marriage has concluded, the proportion of independent marriage occupies more and more big, the scope of the spouse is more and more big, and it appeared cross-national marriage phenomenon. In addition, the past in the "GuJiu biao marriages" basic has disappeared. In the way of the marriage of a continuation of traditional, and on the basis of the localization trend appears, through to the women's marriage and the description of the dowry price being paid, we can see that, with the development of society, women's price being paid and the amount is more and more big dowry. Based on the village women from the marriage of a spouse to all the process analysis shows that in recent years, shi village female family status and social position was a large improvement.After marriage shi village of family relationships to see, in the popular CongFu ju system, women who are generally established his new family relation network, started his own marriage life.Although in dong area, popular with her marriage with live, but shi village woman from stone heart for, they still hope to have their own independent living space, and the way of life is also as people living standard rise gradually to achieve, and thus brought the family type of change. In the family type of dynamic change, core family become shi village women preferred stone, which, of course, but also to the stability of the marriage. In marriage and family, main existing connubiality, and and old woman daughter-in-law relation three categories. Among them, the old woman daughter-in-law relation is the most difficult of the treatment, but young daughter-in-law are also trying to deal with the contradiction between the various family relations, looking for the prospective of between the parties, to reduce the family conflict, avoid conflict. shi village female divorce from remarried situation, account for the marriage of a small proportion, the main reason is that once married, they will never choose divorce, and men and women, as long as the divorce will be jokes, especially for women, the effects of their divorce to more big, after divorce choose remarried, to them, also has the certain difficulty, so the legal sense of divorce and remarriage are less.In the traditional birth custom, the women in the village of fertility and shi village raising process is in the leading position, and so from birth to nurture, until the adult children, women have been plays a main role, one of the customs and taboos against women and is also more set. On the one hand, to the baby's normal birth and development growth, but on the other hand, also bondage to the further development of the female. For boys and girls it, on children period has been to junior high school, their treatment is different also. For boys for, whether in the family, or in society, are more attention than girls, even the chance to go to school, also is the boy more than girls, therefore, in dong society, the status of women although had the very big enhancement, but relative to the men, or low.In nearly50years of fertility culture change, shi village procreation conception and fertility behavior all female about major changes, have certain degree of autonomy, the position also has a certain amount of corresponding improvement. Although the overall level and the national view, women in the family stone village autonomy, there is still a gap in, but believe that with new fertility culture in national minority area gradually and further promotion, stone women in the village will have a family more autonomy, and of course there will be further position also improved.