| Researches on the phenomenon of female governing villages can be of real significance in comprehending rural community's self-government, in perfecting democracy theory at the grassroots level and in reforming the government's governance paradigm as well. Based on the relevant researches both at home and abroad, this article will bring three villages of Guantou, Aoshang, Zhangshu in Jiangxi Province into the research framework of democracy governance theory. With an impersonal attitude and an intention of displaying problems, this article attempts to make clear both the individuality and commonness in female governing villages and to make out the relations between the mode of female governing villages and the democracy governance at the village level. Five sections are included in this article.The first section of this article focuses on the introduction of the genesis and the sample of this research, analyzing its significance, evaluating its present researches both at home and abroad and defining its core concept. By field research method, the change of the village order in villages with female village officers can be found in this article. Thus four assumptions are advanced. One is that the reason for the female's access to the village power system varies. The second is that the way for the female's access to the village power system and the choice of the policy governing the villages has a strong relativity to the governmental behavior. The third is that the characteristic of the behavior of female governing villages differs, whereas female culture will facilitate the democracy tendency in the village governance. The last is that the phenomenon of female governing villages is associated with the mode of government governance — social governance.The second section analyzes the background for the appearance of female village officers. The macroscopical background of this gender substitute comprises of three factors. They are the demand for the vicissitude of rural social governance, which emerges in the modernization process, the democracy context at the state political level and the awakening of the gender awareness, the government supportive policy and the female's acquiring public identity. And the microcosmic background comprises of specific situations of the three villages. By and large this section validates the first assumption.The third section addresses the behavior of female village officers' participation in the election and governing the villages. In ways of "process—event" mode, this section takes power relations as the main line, the villages' female officers' behavior... |
