“Fertility fear” on Chinese social media: The disciplined female reproductive bodies and resistance towards motherhood
Continuum,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown, С. 1 - 22
Опубликована: Янв. 18, 2025
Despite
China's
shift
to
the
'comprehensive
two-child'
policy
in
2019,
fertility
rates
continue
decline.
This
study
examines
discourse
of
'fertility
fear'
(kongyu
恐育)
among
young,
unmarried
Chinese
women,
particularly
on
social
media
platforms
like
Weibo,
RED,
and
Douban.
By
analysing
trending
hashtags
such
as
#Marriage
Fertility
Fear,
explores
anxieties
surrounding
motherhood.
Anchored
theoretical
frameworks
biopolitics
feminist
studies
motherhood,
it
historical
current
state
controls
over
female
reproductive
autonomy.
The
discusses
how
patriarchal
norms
societal
pressures
enforce
strict
timelines,
stigmatizing
deviations
maintaining
gender
inequalities.
Online
discourses
often
blame
male
irresponsibility
for
fears
while
overlooking
systemic
issues
inadequate
family
policies
capitalist
labour
dynamics.
Moreover,
antithetical
narrative
dichotomy
between
childless
women
mothers
reflects
a
broader
rejection
traditional
motherhood
constructs,
with
latter
criticized
capitulating
dictates.
dissecting
discourse,
this
illuminates
interplay
policies,
norms,
personal
agency
decisions.
It
provides
insights
into
evolving
dynamics
gender,
autonomy
post-reform
China,
emphasizing
need
address
both
individual
structural
aspects
governance.
Язык: Английский
The big heroine genre: motherhood and the maternal body in postsocialist Chinese television
Medical Humanities,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
50(2), С. 332 - 342
Опубликована: Апрель 10, 2024
This
article
explores
the
feminist
social
critique
in
‘big
heroine’
drama,
a
newly
emerged
genre
of
television
that
focuses
on
empowering
yet
dramatic
stories
urban
women
contemporary
China.
The
theorises
as
site
ongoing
contestations
to
inform
and
women’s
maternal
reality
neoliberal,
pronatalist
big
heroine
is
situated
postsocialist
structure
feeling
defined
by
alienation
precarity,
responding
China’s
need
stabilise
emerging
population
crisis
labour
shortage.
Using
popular
instance
within
genre,
Left
Right
(2022),
case
study,
argues
show
validates
legitimacy
anxieties
challenges
maternity
then
invites
viewers
engage
multifaceted
analysis
intricate
web
structural
injustices
experience
pregnancy,
childbirth,
postpartum
having
second
child.
By
doing
so,
it
not
only
resonates
with
viewers’
yearning
for
recognition
empathy
but
also
stimulates
broader
discourse
new
persisting
I
conclude
genre’s
contradictory
contingent
nature
mirrors
complexities
Chinese
party-state’s
attempt
navigate
ideological
instability
surrounding
motherhood.
progressive
its
alternative
imagination
kinship
care
networks
navigating
moral,
medical,
cultural
dilemmas
body
motherhood
moment
state’s
transitioning
into
more
aggressive
form
pronatalism.
Язык: Английский
Demographic transition in South Korea: implications of falling birth rates
Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
67(10), С. 498 - 509
Опубликована: Июнь 27, 2024
This
review
examines
the
critical
issues
of
declining
total
fertility
rates
(TFRs)
and
aging
populations
in
East
Asia
with
special
focus
on
South
Korea.
It
provides
a
comprehensive
analysis
TFR
trends,
demographics,
policy
responses
these
nations
to
low-fertility
crisis.
study
highlights
intricate
tapestry
factors
contributing
demographic
shifts,
including
economic,
social,
cultural
influences.
also
effectiveness
various
prenatal
policies
implemented
across
countries,
offering
insight
into
their
successes
limitations.
Furthermore,
it
explores
role
immigration
as
potential
solution
structural
challenges
posed
by
low
birth
rates.
underscores
importance
multifaceted
strategies
for
addressing
complex
faced
Язык: Английский
Research on the Impact of Implementing the Three Child Policy: Perspective from a Social and Economic
Advances in Economics Management and Political Sciences,
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
53(1), С. 46 - 51
Опубликована: Ноя. 30, 2023
Over
the
past
decade,
China
has
seen
a
decline
in
birth
rate
as
well
an
aging
population.
In
May,2021,
Chinese
government
announced
three-child
policy
to
further
restore
demographic
structure
following
failure
of
two-child
policy.
Using
latest
data
collected
from
National
Bureau
Statistics,
Statista,
World
bank
and
Global
data,
this
paper
examines
effect
on
raising
fertility
female
labor
market.
According
quantitative
analysis,
it
is
found
that
been
almost
ineffective
increasing
date,
did
not
improve
intention
for
young
couples
have
more
children.
Based
indeed
reduced
employment
worsened
gender
discrimination
workplace,
which
widened
wage
gap.
Therefore,
these
studies
also
provide
some
theoretical
practical
measures
safeguard
rights
ensure
sustainable
development.
Approaches
are
presented
better
understand
consequences
promoting
them.
Язык: Английский
Grandparental childcare and maternal labor supply in Chinese families with young children: Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies
International Sociology,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
39(4), С. 486 - 509
Опубликована: Май 28, 2024
With
the
implementation
of
three-child
policy
and
delayed
retirement
policy,
conflicts
between
childcare
responsibility
mothers’
labor
supply
in
China
have
increased
dramatically.
The
present
study
utilized
data
from
2018
Family
Panel
Studies
to
investigate
impacts
grandparental
on
mothers
with
children
aged
0–6
years.
results
Probit
model
Tobit
indicated
that
could
significantly
increase
mother’s
force
participation
rate
extend
their
weekly
working
hours.
relation
one-child
families
was
stronger
compared
multi-child
families.
However,
its
hours
smaller
than
Furthermore,
effect
more
pronounced
when
were
younger,
particularly
for
those
0–2
findings
highlight
important
role
several
implications
family
support
policies.
Язык: Английский
The effect of the universal two-child policy on the gender wage gap in urban China
The Economic and Labour Relations Review,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
unknown, С. 1 - 20
Опубликована: Сен. 2, 2024
Abstract
On
1
January
2016,
China
further
relaxed
its
family
planning
policy
and
adopted
the
universal
two-child
policy,
which
allows
any
Chinese
couple
to
have
two
children
address
country’s
increasingly
severe
ageing
problems
low
fertility.
With
this
shift
comes
a
direct
profound
impact
on
society,
especially
women;
paper
evaluates
effect
of
gender
wage
gap
mechanism.
Several
major
conclusions
emerge
from
analysis.
The
significantly
expands
urban
by
12.86%
in
low-policy-fertility-rate
(PFR)
provinces
versus
high-PFR
provinces.
Evidently,
it
increases
among
younger
or
lower-educated
people.
Moreover,
severity
discrimination
labour
market
after
implementation
is
rising,
deserves
attention.
Язык: Английский