探究《云阳涂氏族谱》中底层女性在家庭中的角色

Exploring the Role of Lower-Class Women in the Family in“The Genealogy of the Tu Family in Yunyang”

《云阳涂氏族谱》记载的女性主要是清末民国时期的下层女性,与大众对这一时期女性的传统认知不同,除了从事家务劳动、照顾其他家庭成员的基本生活之外,她们还走出家门,进行生产经营活动以维持生计。此外,女性作为家族婚姻的参与者,在两个不同家族之间扮演了中间人的角色,不同家庭、宗族组织之间通过婚姻关系联系起来,形成多层次的社会关系网络。然而,这些女性仍然未能摆脱传统礼教的束缚,受到了来自社会和自身的道德形塑。

The women recorded in“The Genealogy of the Tu Family in Yunyang”are mainly lower-class women in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.Different from the public’s traditional understanding of women in this period,in addition to doing housework and taking care of other family members’basic lives,they also They also go out of their homes and engage in production and business activities to make ends meet.In addition,women,as participants in family marriages,play the role of intermediaries between two different families.Different families and clan organizations are connected through marriage relationships,forming a multi-level social relationship network.However,these women still cannot get rid of the shackles of traditional ethics and are shaped by morality from society and themselves.