| dc.description.abstract | In this thesis we will talk about one of the famous female revolutionary, Kollontai Alexandra, who was also one of the feminist pioneer in the early days of the former Soviet Union. She discussed feminist views and theories of the women’s liberation in the ＂New Women＂. We will combine Marxism of social development to deconstruct the patriarchy, capitalism system which strives for the liberation of class and gender in the early 20th century.At the end of this thesis will examine the practice of the Communist Socialist women policy implemented by traditional Marxist feminism in the former Soviet Union and China in the mid-twentieth century.
The ＂New Women＂ provides lots of historical materials to explain the reasons for the oppression of women. It especially points out the status of women was determined by their economic positions. According to the history, we know that from the ignorance of the communist society to the feudal society, when female became private property, then to the capitalist social system, endless exploitation of female, are the reasons that women are inability to be liberated. Second, she puts forward the concept of the women’s liberation to awaken Russian women to invest in social revolution and national construction establish a brand-new communist social system. In the last half, it brings out its utopian social ideals. Included the marriage and family system of women’s life, gender relationship and the state’s protection of motherhood under the Soviet families, public ownership and communist government, in the future.
Last, we will back to the mid-twentieth century, when the Chinese Communist Party established the National Women’s Federation to defend women’s rights and promote equality between both genders. They organized women to launch liberation movements and published the first national female periodical, “New Chinese Women”, promoted Soviet women′s policies among Chinese women to encourage them engage in social movements and political public affairs. Furthermore, they amended and promulgated the ＂Marriage Law of the People′s Republic of China＂ to reform traditional marriage and family relations. We will see how they promoted the planned economy, people′s communes and women′s participation in production activities as well.
In addition, since this thesis will also discuss the practice of Kollontai Alexandra, Marxist Feminism in mainland China, perhaps the subtitle of this thesis is changed to Introduction to Marxist Feminism and Practice. | en_US |