Audio Broadcast: Feminism Intersectionality Issues in China

Audio Broadcast:

Feminism Intersectionality Issues in China

by John Yeung

From the Root to the Present

• Son Preference

• Bride Price (Caili)

• Gender Opposition

• Rural Exploitation

• Legal Shift

Son Preference - Patrilineal system

• Roots
  • Patriarchy prioritized sons as lineage carriers.
  • Boys are valued more when Girls are abandoned or neglected in uneducated areas.
• Modern
  • Sex-selective abortions, resulting sex ratios (114:100), rural poverty driving abandonment.
• Intersectionality
  • Urban elites use In vitro fertilization for sons; rural daughters are often ignored.
• Low Birth Rates
• Women with higher education reject unfair caregiving roles in unfair Patriarchy system
• Higher divorce rate
  
  

  Inhumane Tradition Practices

  
  

• Three-inch Golden Lotus Feet - Symbol of beauty

  
  

• Bride Price (Caili):

• Roots
• From Feudal commodification of women as economic transactions.
• Modern
• Rural families "sell" daughters to fund sons’ marriages
• urban debates on "compensation" vs. exploitation.
• The average 20,000-40,000$Canadian Dollar worth of Bride Price
• Intersectionality
• Poor rural women trafficked
• urban feminists redefine caili as solidarity.
• “Transactional Marriages”