Abstract:

As women increase their participation in community governance, urban community governance becomes more feminized. Based on the community governance practices of four communities in Nanyuan Street, Linping District, Hangzhou, this paper analyzes the factors that form the feminization of urban community governance, summarizes the flexible role of characteristics and related behaviors, and focuses on the mechanism of emotional effects. As the study shows, the feminization of urban community governance is mainly related to institutional and cultural factors. Compared with male community workers, the feminized community tends to embrace flexible governance. Women emphasize consultation and cooperation, personal interactions, cultural and humanistic care, and the interests and needs of community members, all of which makes it is easier to form emotion-oriented action strategies in community governance. Through the accumulation and mechanism of five emotional elements (structural, situational, self-actualization, relevance, and internal acquisition), the process of community emotion-oriented governance is promoted.

Key words: urban community governance, feminization, emotional governance, mechanism