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- Title
"I Do Not Know Who I Am": The Chinese Shidu Mother.
- Authors
Liu, Wenjing; Slack, Jennifer Daryl
- Abstract
The success of Chinas One Child Policy has resulted in an enormous number of families with only one child. If that child dies, at any time in the life of that family, the resulting situation is so significant that China recognizes their special status as a "shidu" family (meaning "lost only child"). Using articulation as theory and method, we bring into conversation history, religious and mythological beliefs, economic arrangements, practices, popular representations, and the experiences of shidu mothers accessed in a series of interviews to explore the effects of shidu status specifically on mothers. We insist on a distinction between "shidu family" and " shidu mother" in order to draw attention to the asymmetric and detrimental effects on mothers, who are uniquely positioned in the structure of the family, in the Chinese conception of luck, and in the promotion of reproductive technologies.
- Subjects
CHINA; ONE-child policy, China; FAMILY policy; MOTHERHOOD; PARENTHOOD
- Publication
Women & Language, 2014, Vol 37, Issue 2, p31
- ISSN
8755-4550
- Publication type
Article