Adichie＇s Purple Hibiscus is a feminist work that challenges the dehumanizing tendencies of the menfolk as evident in the character of Mama （Beatrice Achike） who eventually exposed the African conception of an idea...Adichie＇s Purple Hibiscus is a feminist work that challenges the dehumanizing tendencies of the menfolk as evident in the character of Mama （Beatrice Achike） who eventually exposed the African conception of an ideal woman who keeps dumb even in the face of humiliation, victimization, and brutality so as to be perceived as a good woman. We will make a resounding case to portray that Achike belongs to the category of liberal feminism. However, as events unfolds, she was forced by situations beyond her control to respond and go radical in order to crush anything that stands in her way to happiness. Efforts will be made to show how African women are rated based on the real and good women as represented by Ifeoma and Beatrice Achike respectively. This essay in exploring the different tenets of feminism will acknowledge that radical feminism is an off shoot of violence. We shall argue that radical feminism is a radical reaction to dehumanization, humiliation, and violence. This study seeks to address the issue of feminism and how characters subject to series of humiliation that leads to a radical approach to gain their freedom.展开更多
The study explores Feminism by focusing broadly on its history and further examining using Marxism and critical discourses by other feminists.Feminism refers to the idea that women and men ought to have equal rights.I...The study explores Feminism by focusing broadly on its history and further examining using Marxism and critical discourses by other feminists.Feminism refers to the idea that women and men ought to have equal rights.In 1734,the Swedish Civil Code gave women more rights,most notably prohibiting husbands from selling their wives’possessions without their approval.In her 1790 essay“On the equality of the sexes,”American women’s rights campaigner Judith Sargent Murray claimed that women are just as bright as men.British author Mary Wollstonecraft responded to philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau and other 18th-century Enlightenment intellectuals who did not extend their concepts of freedom to women in her 1792 book A Vindication of the Rights of Women.She challenges the idea that women are less logical than males and opposes the injustice.“Who made man the exclusive judge?”she demands.However,Frenchman Charles Fourier coined the term“feminisme”in 1837,marking the beginning of the concept of feminism.The Victorian Social Convention exalted and imposed the domestic roles of wife and mother on most married middle-class women in 19th-century Britain.Career aspirations were restricted because they were not allowed to receive an education on par with that of males.In The Communist Manifesto,German philosophers and revolutionary political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels contend that a bourgeois man regards his wife as nothing more than an apparatus of production.According to Engles,the family is at the core of the violence and oppression that women experience.Marxist feminists saw capitalism and patriarchy as the two fundamental systems that supported the subjugation of women.The British writer and social theorist Harriet Taylor Mill underlined that a lady who could support the family financially and had a good education would be respected by her husband and treated as a partner.However,men utilize rape as a means of controlling women,as seen by the social inequities that still affect women today.It’s shocking to learn that rape was a taboo topic until 1975 when Susan Brownmiller authored Against Our Will:Men,Women,and Rape.There was a notion that said women’s sexuality encourages rape,hence the guilt was frequently placed on the female victims.Nonetheless,postcolonial feminists such as Chandra Talpade Mohanty contend that regardless of their status as powerful or marginal,wealthy or not,women residing in non-Western nations are presumed to be impoverished,uninformed,uneducated,sexually restricted,tradition-bound,and victims.FGM(female genital cutting)has been a custom for at least 2,500 years,still practiced in thirty countries,mostly in Africa,Indonesia,and the Middle East.It is not connected to chastity and purity,guaranteeing that women remain virgins until marriage and remain faithful afterward.In this essay,Finally,I have looked at how women have faced discrimination in a variety of settings,including the home and the workplace,for millennia due to their gender.展开更多
Huizhou wood carving on ancient buildings has been brilliant in the architectural history of Ming and Qing Dynasty.Huizhou wood carving like other folk arts can not generate and develop without the restriction and inf...Huizhou wood carving on ancient buildings has been brilliant in the architectural history of Ming and Qing Dynasty.Huizhou wood carving like other folk arts can not generate and develop without the restriction and influence of the mother culture,among which CHENG and ZHU's Neo-Confucianism has made the most far-reaching influence that advocates feudal ethics and rites,shoulders the function of social civilizing and takes the responsibility to develop ethics and morals.Huizhou wood carving generates under this special regional culture.Therefore,the interpretation and research on traditional ethic culture contained in Huizhou wood carving is of critical significance to the protection of Huizhou wood carving.Filial piety,loyalty,great endurance,marriage harmony,male superiority and female subjugation are the essence of traditional ethic culture,and this field should not be avoided in the research of traditional ethic educational culture.展开更多
Following the Meiji Restoration,Japan rapidly embarked on a path of external aggression and expansion.While during the Edo period in Japan,this historical trajectory appeared to be a result of rapid capitalist develop...Following the Meiji Restoration,Japan rapidly embarked on a path of external aggression and expansion.While during the Edo period in Japan,this historical trajectory appeared to be a result of rapid capitalist development,the conception of overturning the regional order in East Asia had already begun to surface.In terms of ideology,Edo-era intellectuals,drawing inspiration from Chinese Confucianism and Japanese classical literature,sought to bridge the cultural gap between China and Japan,thereby shaping Japan's cultural superiority.Politically,Edo Japan attempted to establish a political framework superior to neighboring countries through diplomatic protocols,and even formulated expansionist plans in the face of internal social crises and threats posed by Russian encroachment southward.Modern Japanese incursions such as the annexation of Ryukyu,the annexation of Korea,and the occupation of Taiwan are all associated with Edoera notions of“Japanese cultural superiority”and“subjugation of neighboring countries”The ambition of Edo Japanese thinkers to overturn the East Asian regional order not only influenced the historical trajectory of modern Japan but also predestined a modern East Asia of unrest and turmoil.展开更多
文摘Adichie＇s Purple Hibiscus is a feminist work that challenges the dehumanizing tendencies of the menfolk as evident in the character of Mama （Beatrice Achike） who eventually exposed the African conception of an ideal woman who keeps dumb even in the face of humiliation, victimization, and brutality so as to be perceived as a good woman. We will make a resounding case to portray that Achike belongs to the category of liberal feminism. However, as events unfolds, she was forced by situations beyond her control to respond and go radical in order to crush anything that stands in her way to happiness. Efforts will be made to show how African women are rated based on the real and good women as represented by Ifeoma and Beatrice Achike respectively. This essay in exploring the different tenets of feminism will acknowledge that radical feminism is an off shoot of violence. We shall argue that radical feminism is a radical reaction to dehumanization, humiliation, and violence. This study seeks to address the issue of feminism and how characters subject to series of humiliation that leads to a radical approach to gain their freedom.
文摘The study explores Feminism by focusing broadly on its history and further examining using Marxism and critical discourses by other feminists.Feminism refers to the idea that women and men ought to have equal rights.In 1734,the Swedish Civil Code gave women more rights,most notably prohibiting husbands from selling their wives’possessions without their approval.In her 1790 essay“On the equality of the sexes,”American women’s rights campaigner Judith Sargent Murray claimed that women are just as bright as men.British author Mary Wollstonecraft responded to philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau and other 18th-century Enlightenment intellectuals who did not extend their concepts of freedom to women in her 1792 book A Vindication of the Rights of Women.She challenges the idea that women are less logical than males and opposes the injustice.“Who made man the exclusive judge?”she demands.However,Frenchman Charles Fourier coined the term“feminisme”in 1837,marking the beginning of the concept of feminism.The Victorian Social Convention exalted and imposed the domestic roles of wife and mother on most married middle-class women in 19th-century Britain.Career aspirations were restricted because they were not allowed to receive an education on par with that of males.In The Communist Manifesto,German philosophers and revolutionary political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels contend that a bourgeois man regards his wife as nothing more than an apparatus of production.According to Engles,the family is at the core of the violence and oppression that women experience.Marxist feminists saw capitalism and patriarchy as the two fundamental systems that supported the subjugation of women.The British writer and social theorist Harriet Taylor Mill underlined that a lady who could support the family financially and had a good education would be respected by her husband and treated as a partner.However,men utilize rape as a means of controlling women,as seen by the social inequities that still affect women today.It’s shocking to learn that rape was a taboo topic until 1975 when Susan Brownmiller authored Against Our Will:Men,Women,and Rape.There was a notion that said women’s sexuality encourages rape,hence the guilt was frequently placed on the female victims.Nonetheless,postcolonial feminists such as Chandra Talpade Mohanty contend that regardless of their status as powerful or marginal,wealthy or not,women residing in non-Western nations are presumed to be impoverished,uninformed,uneducated,sexually restricted,tradition-bound,and victims.FGM(female genital cutting)has been a custom for at least 2,500 years,still practiced in thirty countries,mostly in Africa,Indonesia,and the Middle East.It is not connected to chastity and purity,guaranteeing that women remain virgins until marriage and remain faithful afterward.In this essay,Finally,I have looked at how women have faced discrimination in a variety of settings,including the home and the workplace,for millennia due to their gender.
基金Supported by Phased Achievement of"Research on Traditional Ethnic Education Culture in Huizhou Wood Caving"that is a Subject of Nanjing Institute of Industry TechnologyPhased Research Achievement of"Qinglan Project"of Education Department of Jiangsu Province of 2010
文摘Huizhou wood carving on ancient buildings has been brilliant in the architectural history of Ming and Qing Dynasty.Huizhou wood carving like other folk arts can not generate and develop without the restriction and influence of the mother culture,among which CHENG and ZHU's Neo-Confucianism has made the most far-reaching influence that advocates feudal ethics and rites,shoulders the function of social civilizing and takes the responsibility to develop ethics and morals.Huizhou wood carving generates under this special regional culture.Therefore,the interpretation and research on traditional ethic culture contained in Huizhou wood carving is of critical significance to the protection of Huizhou wood carving.Filial piety,loyalty,great endurance,marriage harmony,male superiority and female subjugation are the essence of traditional ethic culture,and this field should not be avoided in the research of traditional ethic educational culture.
基金supported by the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of CPSF(Project No.GZB20230128).
文摘Following the Meiji Restoration,Japan rapidly embarked on a path of external aggression and expansion.While during the Edo period in Japan,this historical trajectory appeared to be a result of rapid capitalist development,the conception of overturning the regional order in East Asia had already begun to surface.In terms of ideology,Edo-era intellectuals,drawing inspiration from Chinese Confucianism and Japanese classical literature,sought to bridge the cultural gap between China and Japan,thereby shaping Japan's cultural superiority.Politically,Edo Japan attempted to establish a political framework superior to neighboring countries through diplomatic protocols,and even formulated expansionist plans in the face of internal social crises and threats posed by Russian encroachment southward.Modern Japanese incursions such as the annexation of Ryukyu,the annexation of Korea,and the occupation of Taiwan are all associated with Edoera notions of“Japanese cultural superiority”and“subjugation of neighboring countries”The ambition of Edo Japanese thinkers to overturn the East Asian regional order not only influenced the historical trajectory of modern Japan but also predestined a modern East Asia of unrest and turmoil.
