Based on the interviews with 34 Chinese abused women in domestic violence,which is referred to husband physical violence against wife in the family,analyses the cultural and institutional mechanisms of producing and reproducing of the unequal gender relation in China.The setup of men over women remains as profound reasons of unequal gender relation in China.The essence of domestic violence is male realizing his ruling by controlling the body of female.The present gender inequality incorporate that women lack source of politic,culture and economic,and shaped the abused women reflexive constitution of the husbands abusing actions and their justification of the abusing actions which have encouraged the continuation of the violence.The production and reproduction of the unequal gender relation can be defined as a structural duality——the gender inequality embedded in the gender interaction of the daily life,meanwhile this kind of inequality is reproduced and continued by reflexive constitution done by the actor,especially,by the female actor.
