Feminist Reading from scratch (1)

Note: The full text is a dialogue between Yoko Tamiya (Lost Generation) and Chizuko Ueno (Baby Boomers). Because of the trivial arrangement of dialogue and chapters, the reading pen is not structured according to the original chapters, but the author draws up another theme, and the original chapters involved will be marked later.

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Chapter 1 Why is it so difficult for women?

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

Dialogue background: Japan's "Generation Theory" ※

Japanese "generation theory"

Japanese "generation theory"

According to the survey, among the baby boomers, "defeated dogs" and "single aristocrats" only account for 3% of the population, and the female enrollment rate is 5%. Getting married and becoming a housewife was the mainstream of society at that time. Tian Fang belongs to the "lost generation" and her mother belongs to the "baby boomer generation". The values between the two generations have changed. First of all, professional women are more acceptable, and parents' expectations of their daughters become 1. Learn a trade. 2. Get married and have children, but the former still can't 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 pain lies in itself.

Dialogue supplementary background: University struggle in Japan in 1960s. ※

The activity started around 1967, which started with the struggle of the Ministry of Medicine and then spread rapidly with the Vietnam War as the background. Later, it 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 opportunity to calm down. (Generally, the leaders of the student movement will discuss with the university authorities in advance, which is also called "top-level consultation" to determine the degree of the movement. )

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

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

Children with "baby boomers" are bound to want to break this cycle and "mother-to-daughter violence and interference chain". In addition to this part, the misfortune of daughters born to this generation of parents is also an important part of the patriarchal family. Only the eldest son has the right to inherit, and the daughter is more of a commodity value, such as a nanny and a female worker. At that time, the life of the second son was not satisfactory. Except for the eldest son, he 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 was also because these second and third sons, known as "uncles", became the first generation of urban immigrants under the wave of industrialization. Most of them eventually settled in Chiba, Ibaraki, Saitama and other places on the outskirts of the capital circle and formed their own families. Only 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 the so-called "all-marriage society". (but for a short time)

Recommend the Meiji Women's History by Nohiko Murakami. ※?

1.3 mother and daughter (part 10- 12)

Tian Fang suggested that when a daughter quarreled with her mother, her father would be "stoned to death", which Ueno thought was the same as Yugong's "there is a kind of violence that makes his father absent". A mother will also vent her dissatisfaction with her husband on her children, but when she reprimands her children, she will become her father's agent and say, "Who is providing you with education?".

All this, the mother made Tian Fang's generation have more or less physical and psychological resistance, and the gap between generations also made them unable to communicate.