生育，是女性生活中特有的，也是十分重要的内容。

　　由于两性地位的不平等，人类社会中有关生育的生活内容长期以来不被主流文化所重视。
现代社会中，种族之间，民族之间，区域之间的文化融合日益加速，这使得许多古老的生育文
化面临消亡。因此，收集、挖掘、整理、研究不同种族、不同民族、不同地区的生育文化，应
该是妇女学研究领域一项十分有意义的工作。

　　这项研究刚刚开始，展品目前涉及到生殖崇拜、生育禁忌、求子文化等内容，同时，我们还试图对计划生育——这项无论对中国、对世界都具有重要贡献的工作——作为一项课题来研究，并尽可能给予它真实、客观的描述和公正的评价。

Reproductive culture is long neglected by the main culture. Our job on this part is only a start, and exhibits are relatively less. Exhibited here are some symbolic genital worships and art works as well as indigenous child-delivery tools and aborticide.

　　河南淮阳县一带有个习俗，人们赶集时都要买一个“泥泥狗”。

　　所有“泥泥狗”身上都是女性生殖器图画。而有的泥泥狗上面图案是女阴，而造型是阳
具，显示了一种古老的生殖崇拜。

In Huaiyang County, Henan province there is an old custom. When males went to the fair, they habitually bought“mud-made toys”.But in fact they did not know what the toys meant and why they had to buy.

But later, researchers found that on all mud-made toys were drawn female genitals.

　　河南新乡县风俗，女人未生育，婆婆就去奶奶庙求子，人们所求的“子”全是男孩子。

There is a custom in a certain Xinxiang county Henan province.

Mothers-in-law usually get boy figures from a temple, so that their daughters-in -law will have a boy.


　　这张“产床”是中国推行新法接生后，农村卫生院仿照现代产床自制的，后来他们买了产床，将它送给了博物馆。

　　它记录了贫困的中国农民的一段心路历程——向往现代健康文明的生育方式。

This obstetric table was made during the Cultural Revolution by the hospitals in the countryside after the modern obstetric table when the new policy of child delivery was carried out. Later they could afford modern ones and this table was no long used.


　　过去农村赤脚医生使用的接生工具

Child-delivery tools used by Bare-foot Doctor in county during the Cultural Revolution.


　土法堕胎药物

Past indigenous aborticide

 
     
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