Beliefs about Wife Beating among Medical Students from Turkey

The paper presents a study conducted among 173 Turkish medical students, which examined their beliefs about wife beating through a self-administered questionnaire. An integrative conceptual framework was tested as the basis for explaining the students’ beliefs. The results revealed that between 4.5 and 38.7% of the participants justified wife beating, between 3.5 and 5.3% of them tended to believe that battered women benefit from beating, and between 4.7 and 28.5% of them tended to believe that battered women are responsible for their beating. In addition, between 68.4 and 90.6% of the students expressed willingness to help battered women, and although nearly half of them perceived the violent husbands as responsible for their behavior, only about one-quarter of them supported punishing violent husbands. The results also indicate that significant amounts of the variance in students’ beliefs about wife beating can be attributed to their patriarchal ideology toward family life and to their exposure to family violence during childhood and adolescence. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of the results for future research, theory development, and training of medical students. Both authors contributed equally to this paper. The order of the names does not indicate seniority of either author.     

“神似”的中西方男权主义思想——兼谈古代社会人们对男权统治的抗争

私有财产和私有制度的出现，妇女逐渐成为私有财产的压迫对象和男人的附属物，男权社会由此形成。在中国，自古以来妇女就是父权社会的私有财产，妇女必须遵循统治阶级的各种礼法，然而她们却始终被排除在体制之外。而在西方，基督教产生以来，或者更早，妇女就是男人的附庸和物件，基督教以神的名义征缴了妇女的应有权利。几千年的男权社会，中西方的男权思想竟是如此相似。伴随着性别压迫的，必将是被压迫阶层的反抗。正如妇女问题产生的根源是私有制一样，破除妇女受压迫、受歧视的关节点，同样在于对私有制度的废除。     

妇女运动与台湾地区民法亲属编的现代转型

台湾地区在80年代中期的逐渐开放，使妇女运动有了生存的机会。而台湾妇女运动所完成最主要的历史性任务就是推动台湾地区民法亲属编的修订。     

清末民初女性的赈灾实践及角色变迁

传统的民间赈灾活动中,虽然不乏女性的参与,但与男性相比不过凤毛麟角,寥若晨星。清末民初,女性在赈灾活动中的角色、规模、手段、观念等都发生了较大的变化。女界的赈灾实践为民初女性参政热潮奠定了良好的基础,也成为近代民间义赈发展壮大的一个重要标志。     

Inclusive National Governance and Trafficked Women in Australia: Otherness and Local Demand

Trafficked women are used and consumed in different ways and by different users in Australia. They are used by the traffickers and by the consumer of the destination country. They are used as prosecutorial tools by the national criminal justice agents. They are used by the national politicians to pursue border control policy objectives and to be seen as abiding by international protocols. In all these uses, the identity of the trafficked woman is formed and shaped to fit the users’ need. However, these women’s otherness and abjection is constantly maintained and reinforced. They are used as a commodity. Meanwhile, the discussion on the demand side, and the consequent responsibility of the destination country, is virtually omitted. This paper will raise the question of how the socio-legal analysis and discourse would evolve if a literal interpretation of trafficking women as a commodity was taken into account, exploring an international trade approach. The social construction of trafficked women as a commodity has been identified and criticised by academic scholars, NGOs’ and UN’s rapporteurs. By pursuing this line of approach, the destination country is forced to take more responsibility for how the woman is demanded within its territory. As a consequence of this international trade approach, the State should deliver equality and non-discrimination. Rather than being a cynical application of a trade framework to trafficked women, this approach aims to highlight the paradox of such a situation in legal terms. It is highlighted that approaching trafficked women from this legal and jurisprudential way may offer more possibilities to expand their claims against the State. Currently, in Australia, when a trafficked woman is located by the State, she would attract limited and temporal rights, her being the ‘other’ as well as an abject entity remains, notwithstanding the fact the she was imported because there is a demand within the territory.     

妇女在新一轮西部大开发中大有作为

妇女在历史发展和社会进步中具有重要的作用。在新一轮西部大开发活动中,广大妇女应该抓住机遇,发挥独特优势,提高素质水平,促进自身发展并为西部大开发作出新贡献。     

日本女性教育家与近代女子教育

近代日本的一些女教育家们参与或独立创办女子学校，鲜明地提出了自己的教育思想和理念，实施各具特色的教育方针，为近代日本女子教育的发展做出了重要贡献，在日本女子教育史乃至日本教育史上写下了壮丽的篇章。本文将从教育思想和理念、学校的影响以及社会活动等方面，来说明这些女教育家及其女子学校在近代日本女子教育史上的地位及作用，并在此基础上对女性与教育的互动作用做一些思考。     

中国女性参政模式的时代追问

女性参政主要包括民主参与和权力参与，本文重点关注妇女的权力参与，认为新中国建立以来，中国女性参政历经以政府主导的、公平竞争的、比例政策与竞争和选举制度相结合的参政模式，不同的参政模式给女性参政带来了不同的影响。本文通过对女性参政模式的解读，提出了进一步促进女性参政的政策建议。     

人口流动背景下的城市女性务工人员活动空间探究--以J市为例

调查分析发现，当前中国沿海城市女性流动务工人员大多在中低端服务行业和劳动密集型制造企业工作，在民营企业和个体工商户工作的比例大大高于机关事业单位、国有企业和外资企业。人力资本因素是阻碍女性外来务工人员职业获得和转换的重要因素。她们居住空间的分布受就业地点、生活成本、所在城市人口政策的影响较为明显。其居住方式以自己租房为主，其中无配偶者，用人单位提供住房的比例较大；有配偶者，绝大多数与配偶同住。其业余生活较之其他行业的同龄人更为单调，社交范围面窄而且群体同质性较强，文化因素限制了其社交圈子的扩大，她们寻找职业的途径主要是靠熟人介绍。其健康保健意识不是很强。当地提供给她们的就业门路，大多是家政、护理之类的非正规行业，在社会角色上明显处于弱势而且缺乏相应的维权手段，其社会地位亟待得到提升。     

从性别政治到性欲政治——台湾女性思潮变迁的一个侧面

近30年来，台湾女性运动与思潮发展迅猛。特别在上世纪90年代，焦点一度从争取参政权、财产权等公共领域转入“私领域”，更多地关注女性的性欲和身体。这一发展，深刻地显示了台湾社会女性思潮的重大变化。