Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cheng, Wenxia
• Li, Hui

Titel

The Fission of Revolutionary Purpose and the Transformation of the Mass Line: Moderation of Women's Policies of the CCP in the 1940s

Ist Teil von

• She hui, 2019-01, Vol.39 (3), p.210-240

Ort / Verlag

Shanghai: Shanghai University

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Sociological Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• As a Marxist revolutionary party, the CCP advocated gender equality, however, in the 1940s, its radical gender policies came under moderation. During the Soviet period, female emancipation was a powerful means of mobilizing women to participate in the land reform. The Anti-Communist "Encirclement and Suppression" had caused a significant number of male casualty and had drained male laborers from the land. This reality forced the CCP to focus on mobilizing females to step in males' role in production. At the same time, the intensified class conflict took the primacy over the gender equality issues arisen from the radical policies. As soon as the Sino-Japanese War started the CCP suspended the land reform, thus the radical gender policies had lost its practical foundation and the relationship between the Party and the masses had altered structurally.Because of the pressure to seize the resources for the War, the principle goal of the CCP shifted from liberation to draft of army recruits. The relationship betwee