计迎春《JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY》《Between Tradition and Modernity: "Leftover" Women in Shanghai》-上海大学社会学院


计迎春《JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY》《Between Tradition and Modernity: "Leftover" Women in Shanghai》


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作者:Ji, YC (Ji, Yingchun)

JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY（SSCI）

卷:77期:5页:1057-1073

DOI:10.1111/jomf.12220

出版年:OCT 2015

摘要

In recent years, single, educated women who are not yet married by their late 20s in China's major cities have been increasingly castigated as leftover women. After more than 3 decades of rapid socioeconomic development, marriage remains near universal and early in China. In the meantime, there has been a resurgence of patriarchal traditions. Using semistructured interviews, in this qualitative research the author sought to understand the motivations of these women and their efforts to negotiate the contradictions regarding marriage formation and career development. Six themes emerged from the women's narratives: (a) parental pressure, (b) a gender double standard of aging, (c) forced socioeconomic hypergamy, (d) the importance of compatible family backgrounds, (e) efforts to balance women's independence with support for family and men, and (f) conflicting gender ideologies. The author contextualizes these themes by analyzing how women weave traditional expectations with modern life in a transitioning China, where tradition and modernity alternately clash and converge to constitute a somewhat uneasy mosaic society.

关键词

作者关键词:China; education; "leftover" women; marriage; modernity; tradition

KeyWords Plus:URBAN CHINA; SOCIAL-CHANGE; LOW FERTILITY; MARRIAGE; GENDER; TRANSITION; ADULTHOOD; EMPLOYMENT; TRENDS; AGE

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