The Status of Hong Kong Women in The 19th and 20th Centuries.
This paper will examine the status of Hong Kong women for the two-hundred year period (approximate), covering the 1800 and 1900's. In order to achieve a concise and fair assessment, this paper will focus on particular areas. Marriage, the mooi-jai, and concubinage will be included as focus point which reveal the inferior status of women in historical and contemporary Hong Kong. Secondly, the issue of work is crucial area of inquiry to pursue. The relationship between women and the hierarchical system in which they live will be covered. This will include the relationship between women and capitalist colonialism; women and post-colonial capitalism, and the patriarchy. A brief section on the socio-cultural aspects of the status of women, particularly the images of women, follows. Finally, in the concluding section, women and political power and women and women's studies at the university level are the two areas of inquiry. 18 pgs. 44 f/c. 19b.
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