Inhalt: This article uses the life stories of three women in Jinmen to demonstrate women’s economic agency in bettering the livelihood of their families in circumstances largely shaped by Cold War geopolitics and the authoritarian state’s military strategies. It argues that women’s devotion of their labour and earnings to their families was part of the reproductive processes of the kinship system, but also important to their building of social reputation and emotional ties with their loved ones. Moreover, the state’s campaign to protect traditional Chinese culture, framed within bipolar politics, supported the ideological reproduction of women’s primary roles being in the domestic sphere. While the lives of Jinmen civilians were significantly distorted in the Cold War era, their experiences of economic improvement and a certain stability in their ways of life – revolving around kinship – account for the ambivalence they now feel towards the period of authoritarian rule.
Schlagwörter:Taiwan; Taiwan; autoritäres System; authoritarian system; Frauenerwerbstätigkeit; women's employment; Verwandtschaft; kinship; Lebensbedingungen; living conditions; Lebenslauf; life career; Reputation; reputation; Militärregierung; military government; wirtschaftliche Faktoren; economic factors; gender-specific factors; soziale Umwelt; social environment; Kalter Krieg; cold war; Geopolitik; geopolitics; Feldforschung; field research; Social Sciences; Anthropology; Taiwan; militarised authoritarianism; kinship; female labour; learning and economic agency
SSOAR Kategorie:Allgemeines zu den Sozialwissenschaften, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Sozialwissenschaften
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz