The Golden Woman: An Analysis Of Gender Politics In Hong

Another aspect I would like to brush on is how the conventional and expected “male gaze” is possibly challenged (challenging anything orthodox equals to counter cinema) towards the end of the film.

Movie shows the betrayal or unfavorable depiction of the sisterhood, an important concept in feminist ideology, emphasizing that women are bound in a communal oneness. The movie

The way she manages to jump from herself to her grandmother back to herself and to her mother without losing focus or tension is commendable. Chinese Take Away travels along the river which flows from one generation to the next. Anna personifies her grandmother’s stories of survival throughout the 1930’s in China and Hong Kong. Then through her mother’s dislocation and grief in the 1960’s suburban Sydney and then through her own grief, confusion and amity making with her family’s histories and stories. Use of voice, movement and spacing separates the generations effectively. By having the generations intertwined Yen can effectively show how each links to one another in different situations, experiences and times of life. By using disjointed time sequencing, the viewer may be thrown off if it’s not correctly planned, but displays an insightful story and connection. Yen usually mentions the other generation and then smoothly transitions or sometimes abruptly jumps into

As explained in Judith Lorber’s excerpt from “‘Night To His Day’: The Social Construction of Gender”, gender is a socially constructed concept that everyone unconsciously adheres to (Lorber). As a socially constructed concept, representations of gender roles can reinforce or challenge the stereotypical images. In Killing Us Softly 4, Jean Kilbourne analyzed the advertisement industry’s representation of women and argued that the media plays a huge role in shaping gender formations (Kilbourne). Although objectification of women is still a prevalent issue, Kilbourne acknowledged that there are efforts nowadays that challenges the unrealistic representations of women and femininity (Kilbourne). Inspired partly by Killing Us Softly 4, the project is my way to reflect on how the Disney movies I had watched as I grow up represented gender.

Women’s lives in China have changed dramatically throughout reforms in the Qing Dynasty, the Nationalist period, the Chinese Civil War, etc. In the historically male-dominated society, there still is not the gender equality that women have been hoping for. “Millions upon millions of women are missing. They are not lost, but dead: victims of violence, discrimination, and neglect” (Baute). Why should one gender be valued more over the other? Why should one gender be viewed as more important? Females in countries like China are discriminated against, mistreated, and are valued less since many women and girls are not allowed to get an education, the violence/abuse that they have to go through, and because the one-child policy rule that is placed in countries like China.

Women play a submissive role in the patriarchal society in the chapter “Red Candle.” The young girl Lindo Jong has no say in who she wants to marry and was forced at the age of two to me arranged with Huang Taitai’s son Tyan-yu. Lindo was forced to marry a man that she had no desire in but she had to agree with the arrangement so that she could keep her promise to her parents. Lindo instead of being treated as a human being she was treated as a servant instead of a wife. They were treated as property , both in the story and in during the 1920s-1940s. “Women in Modern China,” “women were treated more like property, they were also good laborers for one’s own household, while girls would eventually end up becoming members of other families, contributing to others' welfare.” In the story it talks about how Lindo had to tend to her family and how they mistreated her.

John F. Kennedy once said, “Change is the law of life. Those who look only to the past or present are sure to miss the future.” Between 600 C.E and 1450 C.E, gender roles in China changed drastically when it came to job opportunities and the belief that women should remain compliant. A significant continuity also took place in regard to the effects that society’s concept of beauty has on women.

Despite the oppression women were subjected to in China, they still occasionally overcame it and accomplished something extraordinary. Some worked, and helped to earn the family living, some were extremely honorable in their efforts to uphold their chastity or their family's honor, and some accomplished even more influential feats. Fa Mu Lan trained for fifteen years in order to become a woman warrior. She became as strong as a man, but swifter and more graceful. After saving her father from the draft by dressing up as a man, she assembled an army. Her army never lost, because Kuan Kung, the god of war and literature, would always ride before her into battle. Interestingly enough, another of the more extraordinary feats was that of

Robertson begins by pointing out “men’s rights advocates” that expressed ire toward the film for being too feminist, then discusses sexist themes in apocalyptic works, mainly that women lose freedom in an apocalypse.

”8 Chia Chia’s regret and other people’s indifference indirectly reveal the fact that virginity was still emphasized and cherished, which oppressed female sexuality and sexual freedom. Later, their attitude towards Chia Chih changed. “ Even now, it stung her to recall those knowing smirks, from all of them, K’uang Yu-min included. ”9 Their smirk

Society in this film has constructed the nature and roles of women and men in different ways. Women are separated into different groups

Despite the fact that the two stories were set in different societies, they similarly present women and hence, it can be asserted that women in the traditional societies and even today face same or related challenges and fates. The Tale of Kieu paints a true picture of how women were regarded and portrayed in the Vietnam and Chinese societies during the early 19th

In the early 1990s Laura Mulvey’s thesis concerning the patriarchal structure of an active male gaze has influenced feminist film critiques and Hollywood. Mulvey’s project is to use psychoanalysis to uncover the power of patriarchy in Hollywood cinema. Patriarchal influence upon cinema is found primarily in pleasure (pleasure in looking) or as Freud’s has put it, scopophilia. Mulvey suggests that it may be possible to create a new for of cinema due to the fact that patriarchy power to control cinematic pleasure has revealed.

A woman's status in China was to obey. She was supposed to obey her father, her husband, her mother-in-law, and even her own sons if something were to happen to her husband. A woman's life in China was filled with obedience and subjugation. The quote from the poem "A Marriage Ends" shows us that a woman isn't supposed to think for herself, she only supposed to obey.

encompasses some historical truth. The role of women in Ancient China was to stay home doing feminine tasks. In the film Mulan, it portrays an accurate role of women in society and the