Women Hold Up More Than Half the Sky : Analyzing the wife abuse in Shanghai

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Cultural change and modernization should directly undermine traditional patriarchal norms and, by stimulating industrialization, should indirectly set off a series of socioeconomic changes favorable to women, and together these changes should give women more autonomy, resources, and a sense of self-sufficiency, thereby resulting in a marked improvement in the status of women. (Lee&Clark 2000: 5) Hence, what I wanted to study was to investigate the cases of women victims by calling the hotline, who had completely criticized the traditional legitimacy of wife abuse in Confucian or that indeed they still live in the dominating Confucian life regardless of how much they criticize on it. My main research question is: to what extent do women realize to criticize the Confucian norms by means of calling the hotline to ...