A Study Of Legal Status Of Women Of Song Dynasty Compared With Western Xia

The comparison of women in song and Western Xia on the legal status can be discussed in three areas in this article:economic rights, marital rights and personal rights. Economic rights can divided into the room women, married women and widows inheritance rights and dowry rights, mate marriage rights can divided into freedom of marriage and freedom of divorce, personal rights can divided into personality and identity rights.In addition to equal marriage rights, we can find that the economic rights and personal rights of woman in the song dynasty are better than those women in Western Xia dynasty by comparison. Over all, which we can draw a conclusion that the status of women in the song dynasty is better than Western Xia.This situation occurred in social practice also. You can use the economic base determines the superstructure, a Marxist interpretation of the basic principles to explained this phenomenon:social productivity in the Song dynasty is much developed than Western Xia dynasty, which determined the women of Song dynasty could play more role of economic activity than women in Western Xia dynasty. The difference determined the status of both high and low.