How Does the Film Raise the Red Lantern Explore the Oppression of Women by the Patriarchal Society in China

With the gradual improvement of Chinese women’s status in the 21st-century,gender studies and gender relations had become one of the hottest topics in Chinese society,which consequently prompted Chinese Women’s Cinema to attract the attention of larger audiences.Therefore,many researchers have focused their research on Chinese Women’s Cinema,but at present,it seems that there is still a research gap to discuss and analyze the changes in women’s status and identity in China in recent years.This paper will take the famous early Chinese Women’s Cinema Raise the Red Lantern as an example for discussion and analysis.The purpose of this paper is to discuss the oppression of women in Chinese feudal patriarchal society through the details in the film Raise the Red Lantern.The significance of this paper is to appeal for gender equality in China by analyzing the oppression of women by the feudal patriarchal society in the film Raise the Red Lantern.Through careful analysis and research,it is concluded that the film Raise the Red Lantern profoundly criticizes the oppression and exploitation of women and vulnerable groups by the Republic of China through shooting details.At the same time,it is in sharp contrast with the independent thought and social status of Chinese women in the 21st-century.

A Feminist Reading of Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bront 's masterpiece Jane Eyre heralds a new era.Traditionally,women are depicted as incomplete,irrational and inferior.However,feminist thoughts characterize this novel.It discloses the hard living condition of the women in the Victorian times and denounces the suppression against women in a male-centered society;it depicts a new type of female image fighting for female dignity;it sublimates love into the soul and spiritual combination between two lovers.

Bertha——A Victim to the Patriarchal Social Conventions

Bertha Masan,the obstacle to the marriage between Jane and Rochester,is in fact a victim of the patriarchal society.This paper aims to make a tentative probe into the tragic destiny of Bertha from the perspective of patriarchal conventions.

海斯特·白兰的历程——解读《红字》的生态女性主义自然观（英文）

Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece The Scarlet Letter tells a love story of Hester Prynne,and explores the relationship between women and nature,female and male,which can be analyzed from the view of ecological feminism naturalistic ideology.Hester Prynne has had ups and downs when pursues equality,freedom and happiness,and her experience shows it has a long way to go before building equal and harmonious relationship between all creatures.

Jessie's Power in a Patriarchal Society in Night,Mother

Night,Mother is a famous play about female identification.It is about Jessie,a middle aged woman,who,through many years’struggle,decides to kill herself at nine o’clock in an ordinary night in her mother’s house.Jessie’s fighting for female identity and corresponding power would be analyzed.In the play,Jessie tries two ways to get her power,one by trying to imitating men to get accepted by patriarchal society,and the other by revolting outside resistance and insisting her pursuit of self rights and freedom.

Analysis of the Story of an Hour——From the Perspective of Feminism

The Story of an Hour is a short story written by Kate Chopin on April 19,1894,and originally published in Vogue on December 6,1894.By describing series of emotions that Louise Mallard endures after hearing of the death of her husband,it reveals the heroine——Mallard’s pursuit of freedom and enlightenment of feminist thought.The Story of an Hour successfully created a female image of desiring for freedom,longing for a new life even at the expense of life in a patriarchal society.

Interpretation of The Birthmark From the Ecofeminism Perspective

Ecofeminism is a social and political movement which points to the existence of considerable common ground between environmentalism and feminism, with some currents linking deep ecology and feminism. Ecofeminists think that there are many similarities between the nature and women, one of which is the oppression posed by men. In some pieces of Nathaniel Hawthorne's works, readers can find some of the ecofeminism thoughts. In this paper, the author analyzes one of Nathaniel Hawthorne's great short stories—TheBirthmark—from the ecofeminism perspective.

The Analysis of Elisa's Mind Journey from the Prospective of Feminism

John Steinbeck(1902-1968) is a famous American novelist. The Chrysanthemums was considered to be one of his finest short stories which has become progressively more influential in gender studies during the following decades. As the protagonist, Elisa unfolds herself in front of the readers about her rebellion and submission to the reigning patriarchal ideology. In the paper, I try to present Elisa's mind journey in a male-dominating society, using gender studies analysis. The theme of this story is to describe women's position in a male-centered and controlled culture. In order to give a most justifiable analysis of the theme of this short story, I base my study of Elisa's mind journey on the prospective of gender studies.

Analysis on the Theme of Amy Lowell's Patterns

There are a lot of,or precisely speaking,a train of patterns in Amy Lowell’s Patterns for it seems to be consisted of disparate patterns but as a matter of fact these seemingly disrelated patterns disclose one pattern together from the points of both feminism and psychology.And this paper is aimed to discover the inherent co-relationship among these different patterns and shed light on the theme of this pome,in other words,the feminism of this pome.

Feminist Motifs in William Faulkner

As we all know, William Faulkner shows really concern for the Southern people, especially the Southern women who suffer the most. In Faulkner's works women characters play an important role, which is confirmed. After the theories of feminist literary come to understand Faulkner criticism, critics to Faulkner's novels drafting an encouraging response detect the author himself either as a pro-feminist or a misogynist. On analyzing the woman characters through Addie and Lena Grove—the women images in As I Lay Dying and Light in August, we found out that Faulkner is neither simple a pro-feminist nor a misogynist in the patriarchal society.

Analysis of Blanche's Tragedy Life in the Streetcar Named Desire

the Streetcar named Desire,written by Tennessee Williams,is a well-known play and of course wins a great honor for Tennessee Williams.Many critics gave it lot of attention and make many comments on the heroin’s tragedy life,according to the study of the predecessors,this paper will make an analysis of the causes of the heroin’s tragedy life.

Analysis of Fitzgerald s Bernice Bobbed Her Hair from Feminist Criticism

In Western countries,WWI fostered a major change in attitude by bringing many women out of their homes into new spheres of action,and brought birth to the " new women" and the booming of feminism in United States.Bernice Bobs Her Hair,published in 1920 and collected in Flappers and Philosophers,is a well-known short story of early Fitzgerald.The two heroines-rural girl Bernice and her cousin Marjorie,who was an urban gardenia girl-both had their long beautiful hair cut passively.This paper attempts to reveal the traditional patriarchal shadow deep inside the " new women",by the analysis of psychological changes and their incentives in Bernice and Marjorie through three phases:before Bernice talking about haircut,haircut as Bernice' s chatting topic and after haircut,to search for the real meaning of New Women,which,as the writer' s opinion,New Women are not the females getting rid of the constraints of " angle",such as " beautiful long hair",but the females who take the responsibilities for the societies,their families and themselves based on their feminine essence.

Times Variations of Cinderella——on Evaluation of the Cinderella Complex

From the awakening and the development of feminism, to the formation of the Cinderella complex, much attention has been paid. As we know the reason of the popularity of Cinderella complex is patriarchal rule forces that reigns the world, the only way to remove this psychological problem is the reconstruction of the concept of gender relationship. This essay tries to find some reasons for the popularity of the Cinderella complex by some analysis of the developing of Cinderella mode and Cinderella complex, thus giving some measures.

The“Conscious Absence”and“Virtuoso Presence”of Hegemonic Masculinity——Deciphering Ian McEwan's Atonement

Wittingly concealing the father images in his novel Atonement(2001), McEwan creates the"absence"of traditional hegemonic masculinity, which is a conscious activity in a combined consideration of the figural and thematic progress, the grim social context, as well as his anxiety of influence and identity. Although this manliness is effaced on the surface, regarding the powerful images within, male authority still keeps running through the whole work. Hegemonic masculinity"presents"in manifold transformed and metaphorical forms, invisibly dictating the development of the protagonists and plots. This paper, giving a masculine reading through R.W. Connell's lens, aims to analyze and crystallize McEwan's such male writing, and finally to reach his real concerns: to deconstruct patriarchal culture, to defy dominant discourse, and to build a new order that opens up a real equality and coexistence for both the two sexes.

Pussy Riot at the Crossroads of Politics and Faith Today

Moscow-based Feminist Punk performers Pussy Riot challenged the millennial patriarchal Russian State-Church Religio-Political control on freedom in arts and suppression of women. Woman is still the other of this Church-State totalism, outside. The event is extremely small but the symbolism enormous of an intrinsic lack and its insane compensations. Philosopher Zi^ek sees the significance of what Pussy Riot represent for contemporary global capitalism, represented by the American dollar and Wall Street. Performer Madonna sees the difference between America, where she has been able to express herself and says that anyone can, and other parts of the world, namely Russia, where this is not possible. Although Edward Snowdon found sanctuary in Russia from America, so perhaps Zizek is right.

Birthing Systems, Bio-medicine and Gender-Based PowerRelationships: Patrilinearity and Childbirth in Amed(Est Bali, Indonesia)

This article offers an anthropological overview about birth processes in a small village in Bali.I would like to investigate how the naturalization of this event is often used to justify control over the physical and social body of women,their descendants and social group.Central focus of the analysis will be the consideration of how women’s position within society is determined by a complex system of rules,values,and medical practices deeply conditioning childbirth sphere that legitimates hierarchical divisions and gender inequality.

Trauma and Narrative Wreckage in the Biblical Story of Hagar

The story of Hagar （Genesis 16 and 12） figures prominently in Bible＇s patriarchal narratives of both the elected and rejected with respect to divine promise. As the story of an abused foreign woman cast out into an inhospitable wilderness along with her son, the story raises troubling questions about the portrayal of domestic violence perpetuated by those otherwise celebrated as “faithful” within biblical narratives： Abraham and his wife Sarah. In response to the relative silence on the topic of domestic violence among clergy and leaders of churches, synagogues, and other “sacred spaces”, this paper explores a reading of Hagar＇s story that reclaims her value as a human being. With the help of post-Shoah reading sensitivities that expose strategies of dehumanization, this reading makes visible the way in which the ancient writer/reactor of Genesis performs as an advocate for Hagar in the face of the abuse heaped upon her. In so doing, Hagar＇s story is transformed from a narrative about a rejected “other” into one that exposes abuse by the so-called“elected.” Thus read, the story provides support and encouragement for victims in contemporary religious cultures to step forward and tell their stories.

Getting Out: A Struggle for Autonomy in Physical and Social Confinement

This study comprises an analysis of the American feminist playwright Marsha Norman’s play Getting Out from a socialist-feminist perspective. Getting Out is about the physical and psychological confinement of the victimized protagonist Arlie Holsclaw in contemporary patriarchal American society. Throughout the play, the factors that victimize Arlie are given as the outcomes of a patriarchal society with its basic institutions as the family,educational system, religion and the law symbolized by the correctional rehabilitation. These factors which are under the hegemony of patriarchal authority shape Arlie’s life as beginning from her childhood in the past and define her present search for female autonomy.

Illness in the BrontE Sisters＇ Novels Alcoholism, Madness, and Civilization

Images of illness and disease, for example, cholera, consumption, rabies, rheumatism, fevers, alcoholism, hypochondria, hysteria, monomania, and madness, are present in all the seven novels written by the Bronte sisters during the years of 1847-1853. The lack of cures for most of these diseases which often led to death during the respective period seems to account for such literary representations of poor bodily conditions. The purpose of this paper is, however, to go beyond this handy and obvious explanation regarding illness in the BrontE sisters＇ novels and approach aspects such as： Victorian relationships between women and men, the condition of Victorian women in terms of social and domestic status, positions and roles, and rights and education in a patriarchal age. The novels that shall constitute the support for our analysis are The Tenant of Wildfell Hall （2001） by Anne Bronte, Jane Eyre （2001） by CharIotte Bronte, and Wuthering Heights （1985） by Emily Bronte.

Tanure Ojaide＇s God＇s Medicine-Men and Other Stories： A Feminist Perspective

Feminist criticism, an off-shoot of the Women Liberation Movement of the 1960s, is a gender-based discourse that considers, in some details, the significance of images of women constructed by literature as derogatory and biased; hence, the need to reconstruct womanhood in literary works. From time immemorial and according to historical facts, the Nigerian woman is seen as the bolt of a repressive patriarchal structure that persistently reduced her dignity and human essence and compelled her submission to the whims and caprices of the man. Woman, therefore over the years, has been so long conditioned in the environment of masculine dominance. With the advent of modernization however the world-view of woman and man starts to experience a radical change that calls for a reconstruction of the place of woman round the globe. The enlightenment leads to the feminist criticism among others. Tanure Ojaide represents this world-view in his collection： God＇s Medicine-Men and Other Stories. The fiction is a collection of 10 short stories out of which, however, this paper studies only the first story, ＂Come Back When You Are Ready to Die＂ with a view to exposing how well Tanure Ojaide responded to feminist＇s aspiration for a non-sexiest literary representation of the woman.