Research On Political Participation Of Contemporary Chinese Women From The Perspective Of Marxist View Of Women

Political participation of women is an important part of democratic construction.Political participation of Chinese women has walked through an uneven and unordinary process and formed its theoretical foundation and practical characteristic.In the new era,political participation of Chinese women has made rapid progress while facing many difficulties.This dissertation discusses political participation of Chinese women from the perspective of Marxist View of Women,analyzes the theoretical and practical factors that led to difficulties for political participation of Chinese women and brings out the development path for it.The dissertation mainly contains four parts:Part One is theory review to build theoretical foundation.Marxist View of Women was founded by Marx and Engels and was continuously enriched and developed by Marxists from all over the world.Marxist View of Women insisted that productivity development is the essential momentum of women's role change in society.It discussed the reasons of oppression on women and pointed out the path for women liberation(i.e.participation in public labor)and combined women liberation with class and human liberation.Political participation of women is important force for socialist system foundation and development.Part Two is historical review of the development process of political participation of Chinese women.Women liberation in modern China took double missions of nation salvation and gender emancipation.After May Fourth Movement,Marxist View of Women stood out in gaming with other thoughts on women,which really represented the benefit of women at the bottom of the society and combined gender emancipation with nation liberation.The Communist Party of China established Marxist View of Women as guiding ideology for women movement and mobilized women at the bottom of the society to participate in and support New Democratic Revolution.Part Three is situation analysis of political participation of Chinese women to make clear the reasons of difficulties.Since the foundation of P.R.C and the socialist system,the political participation of Chinese women has achieved a leap-forward development.After reform and opening-up,the political participation of Chinese women has realized transformation from nation-mobilized pattern to self-developed pattern.However,with the rising of the New Enlightenment Ideology,under the influence of western thoughts and the revival of traditional ideas,Marxist View of Women and political participation of Chinese women encountered some difficulties while sharing opportunities in the socialist market economy.Theoretically speaking,Marxist View of Women,which is lack of creativity and theoretical confidence and is conflicted with western feminism and new liberalism thoughts.Practically speaking,the main factors that lead to difficulties include the unbalanced and inadequate development of productivity,inadequate recognition of political participation of women,etc.Part Four is to find out the development path for political participation of Chinese women.Firstly,we should strengthen the theoretical self-confidence of Marxist View of Women,and further enrich and develop it and rationally deal with the impact of foreign culture.Secondly,we should further promote the development of productivity to strengthen the material basis of women's political participation.Thirdly,we should fully recognize the importance of women's political participation from the historical mission of the Chinese nation and the development of human history and civilization.Fourthly,in order to keep the correct direction of women's political participation,we should adhere to the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and incorporate women's political participation into national development plans.Further more,we should improve the environment of women's political participation by relieving contradictions between family and women's political participation,enhancing gender equality awareness and widening paths of women's political participation,etc.In summary,the Chinese women political participation should not continue walking in the old steps or completely westernized.The development of contemporary Chinese women political participation should base on history and find answers from realities and make directions in the future.