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Alienation and Reconstruction Strategies of the Social Gender Relationship in the Families of Limi People

Shi Linhong, Zheng Yan, Lu Yun   

  1. College of Teacher Education, West Yunnan Science and Technology Normal University, Lincang, Yunnan 677099, China
  • Received:2019-08-26 Revised:2019-10-27 Online:2020-03-15 Published:2020-03-15

Abstract:
There are obvious gender differences in family education of Limi people, which is the product of its cultural development.
There should be no such thing as pros and cons. However, as the subjects of cognition, people will alienate the culture while inheriting
and developing it, and express it in the family relationships. Therefore, the original gender division of labor between males and females,
i. e. "the husband working outside while the wife looking after the home", has been alienated as "women's subordination to male
power"; the religion of "harmony between yin and yang" has been changed into "the superiority of the males"; and family members'
"duly duties" have been transformed into "patriarchal supremacy". The reconstruction of the gender relations of the Limi people should
be based on a joint force from the three perspectives of the individual, family and society. Specific measures may include strengthening
the construction of female subjectivity, acknowledging differences, abandoning gender stereotypes, promoting the mainstreaming of
gender in ethnic areas, and solving the employment problems of Limi women who are left at home.

Key words: family, gender relationship, alienation, reconstruction