SOSS

Introduction: In ancient china women could not go to school. Define what is ancient china?.

Demographic: Chinese women (in older days in China)

The Human Rights Violations (Right to Education and the Right to Marry Whom You Want)

1. They can’t select a husband. The women must follow orders from family.

2. The woman didn’t get educated

Sociological Concepts:

· Social Hierarchy

· Gender inequality

· Social class (in relation to power. For example, a king),

Social Institutions (

· Education

· Institution of Marriage (In China men can have many wives)

· Family (Who runs the family and gets to decide who marries whom)

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How does County (i.e. Government) contribute to the human rights violations?

· Seven laws for women (women get punished by law)

· Women will be punished if they go to school without their husband’s permission. They will be punished by the law (Explain How? The women would suffer some type of physical harm

· (Women are punished by culture—the husband will punish his wife)

· Women can’t talk to another man

· Women must follow the husbands orders

· What was done to change things for women

· The government was changed (in ancient we had to follow the laws from the kingdom)

· International Human Rights Changed the way China was run

· What did the International Human Rights Do to help the women of China.

TOPIC: TO STUDY HOW CHINESE HISTORY INFLUENCES WOMEN RIGHTS

Daoism, a religious tradition in china which portrayed women as inferior. In fact, prior to the 20th century, they were held at a lower position in the hierarchical order (Liu, 2013). Women were expected to submit to their husbands and remain loyal. Traditionally, there was division of labour where men were expected to provide and take care of their families while women were expected to stay at home, cook, clean, take care of other domestic duties and perform their wifely duties. The government posts were reserved only for men and women had no say in the matter. However, in the beginning of twentieth century women developed a voice and spoke against the discrimination they experienced from their male counterparts.

The topic for the research project is how Chinese history influenced the human rights. China can be categorized into two, the modern china that is more exposed to the world and is accepting and the other is the Kingdom China that is historical which held more traditional beliefs about women and men’s role in the society. Women in the kingdom china suffered so much. They were discriminated in the sense that they were not given the opportunities their male counterparts had. They were not entitled to an education nor a formal job. Meaning that they were downgraded. The proposal is going to determine how women changed their perceptions and realized they had so much to offer to the society.

Sources

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Liu Lydia et al. (2013). The birth of Chinese feminism: essential texts in transitional theory. Columbia University Press

Barlow Tani E. (2004). The question of women in Chinese feminism. Durham, North Carolina. Duke Unuversity Press

Brownell Susan & Jeffrey N. (2002). Chinese femininities? Chinese masculinities. Berkeley: University of California Press

Fan Hong. (1997). Foot binding, feminism and freedom: the liberation of women’s bodies in modern china. New York: Routledg

Jaschok Maria & Suzanne Miers. (1994). Women and Chinese patriarchy: submission, servitude and escape. London: Zed Books

Samuel Moyn. (2010). the last utopia: human rights in history. Harvard University Press