Violence against women, especially wife abuse, is a social problem that exists in almost
every country in the world. China is no exception. Statistics show that wife abuse in
present-day China is prevalent and serious. However, this social problem was largely
invisible until the early 1990s. At present, it is still not recognized at the official level and
there has been no systematic in-depth research on it to date.
North American feminists have long realized the seriousness of this issue and have since
done a great deal of research with respect to the causes, prevalence and control of wife
abuse. Their perspectives reflect the social reality in North American countries, but are
they useful for other countries? This thesis tries to explore a feminist approach to the
analysis of violence against women in the home in China's context, especially the lack of
political will, which inevitably results in the failure of the criminal justice system to enforce
the laws against wife abuse. The thesis tries to prove that violence against women in the
home is a serious social problem in China that must be recognized and dealt with
effectively. In order to control it, a sincere political commitment to deal with the problem
is of paramount importance. The joint efforts of all social sectors, the criminal justice
system in particular, are vital to guarantee gender equality in the private sphere.
The thesis considers western feminist theories with respect to violence against women in
the home as a gendered issue and the impact of feminist perspectives on controlling wife battery in western countries; investigates the dimensions and causes of wife abuse in
China, demonstrating that this abuse is an unrecognized but serious social problem in
China; explores the existing legislative protection of crime victims in China; analyzes the
existing problems with the criminal justice system with respect to providing assistance to
battered wives; discusses various reasons why the criminal justice system fails battered
women in China, including the factors of state policy, women's federations, patriarchal
ideology, mass media and social indifference, and gives suggestions on how to prevent and
control spousal assault.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/8997 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Chen, Min |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
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