Part
IV: Feminizing Hong Kong
1.
History or
Her-story
1.1. Historical narrative is dominated by MEN
1.2. Feminism in the 1960s
1.3. Two modes of Women history
1.3.1.
Making women
visible: Some historians follow the mainstream framework to make “women” as
actors in history or certain historical moment. In other words, they are
writing Her-story. For example, there are a lot works on women in the French
Revolution, the Second World War, … …
1.3.2.
Exploring
diverse gender relations and identities: The nature of women is supposed to be
a gender identity rather than a stable or biological category. Recently more studies focus on women’s
different identities in different situation, organization, political movements,
social institution, etc. They are writing her-stories.
1.4. “Women” as a
wide range of subjects and a metaphor of power relations in domestic space,
industrial organization, political institution, etc.
2.
Working
daughters of Hong Kong (1981)（中譯：打工妹？）
2.1. Janet Salaff is a sociologist and anthropologist from North
America. During the 1970s, she did
her fieldwork in Hong Kong and interviewed some young women workers.
2.2. Her focus is on Chinese family power. Hong Kong’s working daughters’ autonomy
and freedom were constrained by household.
2.3. They had to quit school early for earning
money to support their siblings and parents.
2.4. They submitted their wages to their family
rather than kept them as personal savings.
2.5. Even their marriage is more or less influenced
by their parents’ family needs.
2.6. Recent work on this theme: 晚晚6點半：七十年代上夜校的女工
3.
阿婆口述歷史
(1999)
3.1.
A project organized by feminist group (Association for the Advancement
of Feminism新婦女協進會) http://www.aaf.org.hk/
3.2. Not Her-story but her-stories: 阿婆 have different ideas or
views of histories
平民化／非直線／個人化／私空間的歷史
4.
Middle aged women(《女人四十》《再見亦是老婆》)
4.1.
Middle aged women=Housewives?
4.2.
The life of middle aged women is full of “burdens”
4.3.
Multi-roles in one woman: housewife, mother, sister-in-law, … …
5.
少女口述歷史(2002)
5.1.
Another project organized by feminist group
5.2.
Her stories as making sense of life追尋及創造生命的意義: 少女are
exploring their possibilities for the future rather than making conclusion (「囉」)
5.3.
少女 histories open up our
view to see the domination imposed by adult: education, family,media, … …
6.
Prostitute (next week discussion)
7.
Public history公共歷史, private life
7.1.
Women as a metaphor of private domain of life
7.2.
Women’s oral histories are encouraging people to partake of history
7.3.
Making gender in public life?