A Study Of The Daily Lives Of Rural Women In Xiangfen County During The Period Of Agricultural Cooperation

The unconscious daily lives of rural women can easily be overlooked or even ignored in the course of history,but perhaps it is behind this habituation that great social changes and cultural turnover are hidden.The article focuses on ordinary women and groups,through a penetrating analysis of the daily lives of rural women in Xiangfen County during the period of agricultural cooperation,understand the face of women’s lives in the economy,politics,marriage and family and culture,analyze the characteristics of rural women’s daily life,and thus explore the interaction between rural society,cultural forms and the general public.After 1949,rural women were considered to be the vast majority of the women who participated in labor.Women are no longer like "the door cannot go out of the door" in traditional society,but they have begun to go to the fields and participate in production.Based on the theory of women’s emancipation and the needs of socialist construction,rural women in Xiangfen County began to actively participate in the practice of labour and achieved remarkable results in agricultural production,“equal pay for equal work”,increased production and savings,and gave rise to many outstanding models of labour.Women also appeared in political activities and various tasks.After the promulgation of the Constitution,women were given sacred rights and actively participated in politics,cooperated in the implementation of state policies,trained a number of excellent women cadres and completed women’s organizations.After the promulgation of the Marriage Law in 1950,the status of women as subordinates was changed and,following the mobilization of all possible means of propaganda and implementation,women began to fight and resist the old marriage system,to fight for freedom of marriage and to escape from feudal constraints.With the further development of agricultural cooperation,the masses,including women,realized the importance of literacy and took part in literacy classes in winter schools to learn ideology,politics,literacy and technology.In addition,women have a different body structure from men and experience special conditions such as menstruation and pregnancy,so the propaganda and learning of the new method of delivery and maternal and child health care is also one of the contents that women must learn.After a massive literacy campaign and the right medicine,women became literate young people of the new age,with improved production skills and much improved physical fitness.In the spare time,women will also participate in recreational activities to enrich their daily life.Of course,the dissemination and development of new ideas will encounter different degrees of resistance,and the time for people to accept will be buffered.In the changes of rural women’s economic,political,marriage and cultural life,there have been some phenomena such as prejudice,suppression and discrimination against women,which aggravates women’s physical and mental burden.However,with the continuous progress of history,these also provide a good reference for how to treat gender differences,social commonalities and the pursuit of gender equality between men and women,and provide historical experience for the development of women’s work in the new era.