Research On Hunan Women's Liberation Movement Of The Early Stage Of The People Republic Of China (1949-1956)

The establishment of the People's Republic of China(PRC)on October 1,1949 marked Chinese people broke the exploitation system which oppressed millions of people for a long time,set up people's public power,repealed the old polices and edicts which enslaved women and unveiled a new era of Women's liberation.However,there're a lot of the phenomenon of discrimination against women,the women have not achieved the real liberation.Women in Hunan have the glorious revolutionary tradition.The history of struggling for their self-liberation began in the Hundred Days Reform and walked in the front row of the whole country in 1920 s.But there are little research has been carried out about Hunan women's liberation in the youth of PRC.In the early days of the founding of new China,the Chinese Communist Party formulated a series of laws,policies and regulations that benefited women,and provided corresponding legal protection and policy support for women to achieve further emancipation.Hunan Province took advantage of this tide,according to the actual situation of the province to develop acorresponding policy,and to achieve the liberation of women to do a lot of preparatory work,such as the creation of women's organizations,women's liberation education,the creation of books and so on,from the policy guidelines,,Ideological education gave a high degree of attention and carried out a careful deployment,making the beginning of the early Hunan women's liberation movement to proceed smoothly.Hunan Province,under the leadership of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee,the Provincial Government and the Provincial Democratic Women's Federation,Hunan women in the political rights and social status,labor security and health and epidemic prevention and marriage and other aspects of the liberation of practical activities,and achieved great success:,90% of the women's citizens participated in the grass-roots elections in1953,a large number of grassroots women cadres to be training and promotion;the same time,in the Korean War,“three” and“five anti” and patriotic health movement,Hunan women also show their own Is a great force to break the long-standing discrimination against women;women began to go out of the family,and actively participate in social production labor,with men to manage national affairs,contribute to the cause of socialist construction;to support and ensure that women can Peace of mindto participate in social work,maternal and child health and welfare undertakings are gradually being taken seriously.In the family personal life,the new “marriage law” propaganda and implementation,so that women from the feudal marriage system in the freed,enjoy the equality of marriage between men and women autonomy.Hunan women in the beginning of the founding of the vigorous liberation movement,but also the formation of the characteristics of the province's women's movement: it is not carried out in isolation,but with the beginning of the founding of the province to consolidate power,restore the economic center work closely together;Movement is related to the political,economic,cultural,social,health and other aspects,a wide range of liberation more thorough;but it should also be seen at this time the liberation of Hunan women is mainly driven by the state from top to bottom,women Of the initiative and awareness of consciousness is poor,therefore,the whole movement too much by the political constraints.At the same time,as the important part of the restoration of politics and the consolidation of the economy at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China,the most direct result of the Hunan women's movement was to promote the improvement of the status of women,which hada great effect on social ideas,social behavior and mode of production influences.