Women of China, Women of today
Women of China, Women of today
"When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive." Florynce R. Kennedy, "Institutionalized Oppression vs. The Female," (1970).
Florynce's quote could apply to the oppression of women in Chinese culture just as well as the oppression of women in the 21st century. Over many years oppression against women for the sake of beauty has taken on many forms, be it foot binding in china, The wearing of neck rings in the Padaung tribe, or breast implants in modern culture. Women from each culture may choose these devices with their own will, but they choose them because they have been conditioned by their society to believe it is what they must do in order to appear beautiful. In this way women in China and women now are caught in a trap of brutal standards of beauty. Women in modern times and in Chinese culture are bound into a set of beauty ideals and can be connected through time by the oppression they face.
In the good earth Pearl S. Buck uses many motifs and separate instances to show oppression in
China. Foot binding is one of the motifs used in the story. When Wang Lung sees O-lan for the first time,he is somewhat disappointed to see that her feet are not bound, even though she is more useful without bound feet. Lotus's feet are bound, and Wang Lung thinks it makes her look more beautiful and dainty, however, when she becomes fat with wealth and food, her bound feet make it extremely painful to walk and she waddles about. An instance of the oppression of women that happened in many homes in early china was infanticide of girls. The second daughter of Wang Lung and O-lan was a small and weak child because of he famine. There is no way to tell if she would have been mentally disabled like the first girl or not as he was killed shortly after her first breath. In china, many infant girls were killed simply because they were female. Here the child was also killed
"When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive." Florynce R. Kennedy, "Institutionalized Oppression vs. The Female," (1970).
Florynce's quote could apply to the oppression of women in Chinese culture just as well as the oppression of women in the 21st century. Over many years oppression against women for the sake of beauty has taken on many forms, be it foot binding in china, The wearing of neck rings in the Padaung tribe, or breast implants in modern culture. Women from each culture may choose these devices with their own will, but they choose them because they have been conditioned by their society to believe it is what they must do in order to appear beautiful. In this way women in China and women now are caught in a trap of brutal standards of beauty. Women in modern times and in Chinese culture are bound into a set of beauty ideals and can be connected through time by the oppression they face.
In the good earth Pearl S. Buck uses many motifs and separate instances to show oppression in
China. Foot binding is one of the motifs used in the story. When Wang Lung sees O-lan for the first time,he is somewhat disappointed to see that her feet are not bound, even though she is more useful without bound feet. Lotus's feet are bound, and Wang Lung thinks it makes her look more beautiful and dainty, however, when she becomes fat with wealth and food, her bound feet make it extremely painful to walk and she waddles about. An instance of the oppression of women that happened in many homes in early china was infanticide of girls. The second daughter of Wang Lung and O-lan was a small and weak child because of he famine. There is no way to tell if she would have been mentally disabled like the first girl or not as he was killed shortly after her first breath. In china, many infant girls were killed simply because they were female. Here the child was also killed