JOURNAL OF HEBEI UNIVERSITY (Philosophy and Social Science) ›› 2019, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (6): 154-160.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1005-6378.2019.06.018

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Daily life, Gender and Desire:A Review Study of Perm Phenomenon during the Republic of China Period

CHEN Na-na1,FENG Jie2   

  1. 1.College of Education, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002; 2.College of History, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, China
  • Received:2019-03-01 Online:2019-11-25 Published:2019-11-25

Abstract: Perm phenomenon is one kind of representations of social custom in the Republic of China period. And also, it is a phenomenon which concerns with the beauty of the female in daily life. This paper tries to study this phenomenon with three elements: personal feeling, human desire and power invalidation by related research results of history of everyday life, gender history and psychological study of desire. Thereby, it tries to interpret the function of “human”,which is the basic core in human development in history. Essentially, with the social development, perm is a social phenomenon requested by the beauty desire of the female.The transformation of the states status at home and abroad(the “female status” in the international community and the “male status” in the domestic society)made it inev-itable for the government of the Republic of China to ban womens perm. However, the beauty and the seeking benefit desires are crucial elements that lead the failure of the prohibition.

Key words: the Republic of China period, perm, history of everyday life, postmodern feminism, desire

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