Naming Men -- The Evolution of Patriarchal Critique in 20th-Century Women's Literature

Author: Li Youliang
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features:
· Women Have No Truth
· Women Not Only Live in the Reality of Patriarchy but Also in the Writing of Male Discourse
· Women's History Becomes a History of Men's Description and Interpretation of Women
· The Prolonged Patriarchal System Makes All Speech About Women Centered Around the Interests of the Male Subject
· Patriarchal Cultural Traditions Discriminate Against and Oppress Women, Penetrating Every Aspect and Corner of Real Life
· The Modern Women's Liberation Movement that Began in the Early 20th Century Unfolded a New Page of Resistance Against Patriarchal Rule
· In the Subsequent History of 20th-Century Women's Literature, the Consciousness of Critiquing Patriarchy Constituted the Central Thread of New Women's Consciousness
This book aims to review and organize the cries, questions, sighs, and self-talk of 20th-century Chinese women in the special space of literature. It focuses on exploring how they broke through and resisted the male-dominated surroundings, how they shaped the fate of men in different realms of mundane reality and supreme love, and how they constructed their own ideals of womanhood. In a word, it explores how they named men.