Body,Revolution,and Women's Gender Identity:Focusing on Women's Clothing and Labor in the 1950s
The establishment of New China held profound significance for women,not only through the revolution's transformation of daily life,which redefined and strengthened women's role in social life,but also by reshaping the body to provide new avenues for gender identity.The body,as the material bearer of daily life and the social foundation of self-identity,was molded under revolutionary ideology through clothing and labor.This process enabled the establishment of gender identity encapsulated in the saying"women hold up half the sky"during the 1950s-1970s,fundamentally shaping the re-lationship between gender and narrative in this historical period.