农村中年女性的温情策略与家庭关系期待——对河北上村隔代照顾实践的研究

Emotional Strategy and Expectation of Family Relationships among Middle-Aged Rural Women:Practice among Women in Shang Cun,Hebei Province

文章采取民族志的研究方法,对河北上村的隔代照顾进行研究发现,农村中年女性通过"反思性生涯"发展新型的代际策略。与传统婆婆在代际支持上的"缺席"不同,中年女性积极营造与儿媳妇的代际关系,她们通过出让工作权利,诉诸亲密关系,力图"生产"融洽的代际关系与和睦的家庭伦理,进而"激发"子辈的感激、依恋乃至对其未来养老的承诺。但是,在父权制与市场经济的双重作用下,中年女性的权利在代际关系重构的图景中隐而不见,她们不得不面临权力丧失与主体性消融的困境。

This paper adopts ethnography in an analysis of family relationships in Shang Cun Village, Hebei and finds that middle-aged village women develop new strategies to construct intergenerational relationships upon reflections on their lives. Different from the tra- ditional ＂absence＂ of mothers-in-law in intergenerational support, these middle-aged women actively build their relationships with their daughters-in-law. Through giving up work to care for the young and mend close ties, they try to ＂produce＂ amicable relationships and harmonious family ethics so as to ＂inspire＂ children＇s appreciation, dependency and promise of care for their old age. Under the domi- nation of patriarchy and market-based economy, middle-aged women＇s power in the construction of intergenerational relationships is hidden, and they have to face the challenges of both losing their power and the disappearance of mothers-in-law as a group.