Female Perspective but Patriarchy Implication: The Illusory Sexual Subjectivity of Female Protagonist in Chipozi zhuan
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.210519.020How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Chipozi zhuan, female desire, sexual subjectivity, feminism, Ming-Qing fiction
- Abstract
Chipozi zhuan (Biography of a foolish woman) is an erotic novel in Ming dynasty, of which the female first person narrator makes it unique and eye-catching. Many studies have discussed this novel concerning its author’s identity, delivery as well as images of sex and gender. Regarding the issue of female image, a common-seen view is that the female protagonist of Chipozi zhuan is placed as a role of victim, which rationalizes her sexual misconduct and criticizes the patriacrchal culture indirectly. However, narrations of Chipozi zhuan relative to active or passive sexual roles seem to reflect other implication about sex and gender. This article mainly focuses on the sexual subjectivity of the female protagonist in Chipozi zhuan, and adopts a text-centered inter-disciplinary methodology, which not only focuses on the original content of novel but also embrace perspectives and knowledge from feminism, sociological theory and historical materials. This kind of analysis show that female sexual subjectivity in Chipozi zhuan is illusory and constructed based on a male perspective, which mainly shown from three perspectives: the denial to female desire, the rationalization of male violence through depicting female pleasure in extreme passive sex as well as the association between social class and sex.
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- © 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Hoi Yan CHU PY - 2021 DA - 2021/05/20 TI - Female Perspective but Patriarchy Implication: The Illusory Sexual Subjectivity of Female Protagonist in Chipozi zhuan BT - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 102 EP - 106 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210519.020 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.210519.020 ID - CHU2021 ER -