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Document 6
6. State one
reason the women of Zimbabwe feel they should be appreciated by the new state.
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Document 7
China Youth News (1980
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7. How has the role of the daughter-in-law in t
he family changed in China? [1
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Reproduced from the August 2001 Global History and Geography Regents Exam
Permission to use this resource is granted only for educational, non-profit use.
In this excerpt, Liu Tao responds to a letter asking for advice concerning conflict in a
household between the wife and the mother
-in-law in the Zhong-guo Ginnian Bao.
What was the main cause of this conflict? In the old society, the mother-in-law ruled the
family. People believed that “the daughter-in
-law is like a purchased horse.” But things
are different now. The daughter-in-law has an independent income; she is literate and
articulate [well spoken]. When there is conflict, the daughter-in-law is the main cause
of it.
In this excerpt, Thema Khumalo describes her role in supporting the revolution against
the Rhodesian Government and the renaming of the state as Zimbabwe (1979
-1980).
We women, also fought the war and I still feel proud of this . . . It was only after the
war that we started to hear discussions about women . . . We women fought together
and even now we do things together. Some men ran away and went to towns. They only
came back after the war was over . . . . If our affairs were now to be decided on how
each of us fought, I can tell you that all the homes would now belong to the women ....
Some [men] sent parcels [packages] and money at weekends but still they never came
home because they were afraid of being killed. The women stayed, whether it meant
death or life, because we wanted our country.