A Survey of Studies on Comparative Culture:Women's Lot in the Feudal Society in the West and China

In the feudal society,its power rule plus cultural subjugation firmly established human beingssexual relationships as much as those in the slave society in embryonic form,and brought into realization a complete dominance over women both in the person and the spirit.The article is,from the three dimensional point of view of what womens lot was like under the social estate system,in the feudal ethical code,and under the rule by divine right,to offer a survey of and reflections on,in terms of comparative culturology,the conditions under which women survive in the feudal society respectively in the West and China,and then point out similarities and differences in the fate of women living in the two separate parts of the world during that historical period,so as to provide reference for accomplishing the great historic task of womens liberation.