Women Oppresion In Chinese Culture

In “The Woman Warrior” we can see how each chapter and each story is mainly about a woman that affects Kingston’s life. The whole book depicts the male-dominated society she lives in. This is done through the use of only women in the book, men are intentionally not included. This book shows the power full Chinese traditions. They are educated to and raised to believe they are worthless. As I read a women saying, "Better to have geese than girls". Kingston’s mother is a successful doctor, and yet she can’t stress more the fact that girls are disappointments to their parents, no matter what they accomplish. Kingston’s feels haunted by ghosts of Chinese girls whose parents abandoned them because they wanted sons. We can see it is a very masculine culture, were women and girls are oppressed but they learn to live with it, making it a part of their daily lives. To them it is the right thing to do, for many of us it’s simply absurd. You may ask yourself why they don’t stand up for what they believe, but the truth is most of them believe and practice their culture with no exceptions. This is why Kingston’s fantasy story includes all these admired humans roles, that depict women as very successful and a key tool. In her story women are given the value they deserve nowhere are they undermined. I think she does this because she is not in accordance with her culture, yet she has to follow it unless she leaves home.