民国时期女性缠足与生产劳动——对山西省碛口镇女性的考察

Girl's Foot-Binding and Work in the Period of Republic of China

缠足不仅仅是一种旨在改变女性身体的社会习俗活动,而且与女性生活中如婚姻、教育、工作等方面都有密切的联系,它们共同构成了女性生活的不同侧面。20世纪20年代之后,由于新思想的传播及各项禁止缠足法令法规的颁布,碛口镇女性缠足明显减少,但放足并不是一帆风顺的。本文通过对碛口镇缠足女性的考察发现,缠足的确影响了妇女参与农业劳动的可能性,而男女性别分工的强化使女性更加适合在家庭手工业、家务、生育等领域活动,具有强化男性对女性奴役和家庭生产自给的作用。

Foot-binding is not just a change of the body,it has close ties with various aspects,such as marriage,education,work,ect,and plays important roles in female lives.After the 1920s,the number of foot-binding female had reduced significantly due to the spread of new ideas and the promulgation of the laws and regulations to forbid foot-binding,but the process was intricate and long.Through the examination of girl＇s lives and work in the Period of the Republic of China,it is concluded that foot-binding did affect women＇s life in agricultural labor,strengthened the sexual division of labor and made girls more suitable for family handicraft industry,household chores,breeding and so on,thus strengthening the family＇s self-sufficient nature.