Feminist Reading from scratch (1)

Note: The whole text is a dialogue between Yoko Tamiya (the "lost generation") and Chizuko Ueno (the "baby boomer generation"). Because of the trivial arrangement of dialogue and chapters, the reading pen does not follow the original chapter structure, but the author draws up another theme, and the original chapters covered will be marked later.

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chapter 1 why is it so hard for women?

1.1 "baby boomers" and "lost generation" (sections 1, 2 and 3)

※ Supplementary background of the conversation: Japan's "generation theory"

Japan's "generation theory"

According to the survey, women who are "defeated dogs" and "single aristocrats" in the baby boomers. Tianfang belongs to the "lost generation" and her mother belongs to the "baby boomer generation", and the values between generations have changed. First of all, professional women are more acceptable, and parents' expectations for their daughters become 1. Learn a trade 2. Get married and have children, but the former still cannot destroy the latter; Secondly, the "baby boomer" feminism has clear enemies, such as parents. But in the view of the "lost generation", the root of the pain lies within itself.

※ Supplement to the background of the conversation: The university struggle in Japan in the 196s

started around 1967, which started with the struggle of the Ministry of Medicine, and then spread rapidly against the background of the Vietnam War. Later, we gradually changed from specific requirements such as "canceling incorrect punishment on students" and "stopping raising lecture fees" to topics such as "self-denial" and "criticism of productive principles", which became abstract and missed the best time to calm down. (Generally, leaders of student movements will discuss with the university authorities in advance, which is also called "top-level negotiation" to determine the degree of movement. )

1.2 "baby boomers" and unfortunate mothers (section 4-9)

"baby boomers" not only have a low enrollment rate for women, but also enterprises in society are reluctant to recruit women who have graduated from universities. Because of the premature age of first marriage, many women have only worked for two or three years. This social problem was used by two interlocutors to explain the mother's personality problem and the poor relationship between husband and wife in that era.

children with "baby boomers" mothers will inevitably want to break this cycle and "the chain of violence and interference from mother to daughter." In addition to this part, the misfortune of daughters born by this generation of parents is also an important part of patriarchal families. Only the eldest son has the right to inherit, and daughters have more commodity values, such as nannies and female workers. At that time, the life of the second sons was not satisfactory, except the eldest son, who would be called "uncle" and live in the room all his life without getting married, becoming the existence of the eldest son's domestic slave.

The "baby boom" in Japan after World War II is also due to the fact that these second and third sons, known as "uncles", became the first generation of urban immigrants under the wave of industrialization, and most of them finally settled in Chiba, Ibaraki and Saitama, which are the suburbs of the capital circle, and formed their own families. Only about two children are born in the same generation, but the total number of children has increased, because the marriageable population and the cumulative marriage rate have risen sharply. At the peak, 97% of men and 98% of women have been married more than once, which is also called "all-married society". (but it was short-lived)

※ Recommend the Meiji Women's History by Nobuhiko Murakami?

1.3 Mother and Daughter (Verse 1-12)

Tamiya suggested that when a daughter quarreled with her mother, her father would be "stoned", which Ueno thought was the same as "there is a kind of violence called father's absence" in Yu Gong. Mothers will also vent their dissatisfaction with their husbands on their children, but when they reprimand their children, they will become the father's agent and say "who is providing you with education".

All these things, my mother made Tamiya's generation have more or less physical and psychological resistance, and the gap between generations also made them unable to communicate.