| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 客家文化學院客家社會與文化學程 === 101 === Hakka women have long been considered virtuous and obedious owing to the oppression of patriarchal system. The thesis attempts to apply social constructivism and relationship theory to re-examine the image of Hakka women, how they adapt themselves in mainstream discourse and their own understanding of self-identity and self-actualization.
Through narrative research with five elder Hakka women living in Hakka community in HsinChu County, the findings are listed below:
1. Hakka women don’t view themselves as a oppressed group.
2. They construct a new self-identity and find great fullfilllment.
3. They construct the fifth labor--filial piety; they transform taking care of husband’s parents into a new element of their own self-identity.
4. They view labor and the norms set by patriarchal system are a stage for self-actualization.
5. They strain to live a better life even in a restricted society, building solider problem-solving system in order to deal with obstacles in life.
Keywords: Hakka women, life experience, narrative research, constructivism, vaule of life
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