International Women's Day is a festival established on 8 March every year to celebrate the important contributions and achievements of women in the economic, political and social fields.
Looking back at history, we can find that women have created countless progress and achieved a lot of achievements by virtue of their tenacity, indomitability, intelligence and kindness, and other good qualities.
Feminism has gradually entered the public's vision, and equality between men and women has become the norm of the beliefs of countless people, so we know that society is progressing, and we will continue to work hard for this.
Today, I wish all female friends a happy and free life.
feminism
Li Yinhe / Shanghai Culture Publishing House / 2018
"Feminism" is the essence of Li Yinhe's 40 years of feminist research. Based on the study of Chinese and Western sociological theories, based on years of fieldwork and social observations in China.
In this book of Feminism, Li Yinhe sorts out the feminist theory, feminist movement, feminist genre, feminist controversy and the trend of thought after feminism. Looking at these theories, some are as fierce as fire, some are as calm as water, some advocate a decisive struggle, and some recognize concessions and compromises. It boils down to one sentence: equality between men and women for all humanity.
If you want to understand feminism but don't know where to start, Li Yinhe's book can construct a solid theoretical framework for you.
"We should oppose not only men's oppression of women, but we should also oppose women's oppression of women."
Secondary sex
Simone de Beauvoir / Shu Xiaofei
/ Xiyuan Press / 2009
With cultural content covering philosophy, history, literature, biology, ancient myths and customs as a background, the author discusses the actual situation of women's situation, status and rights in the historical evolution from primitive to modern society, and explores the gender differences shown in the history of women's individual development.
The book has been hailed as "the most sound, sane, and wise book ever written about women", and has even been revered as the "Bible" of Western women, known as the "Bible of Women".
In November 2015, the book was named one of the 20 most influential academic books.
"If she had focused on studying, sports, professional training, or some sort of socio-political activity, she wouldn't have been thinking about men all day, and she would have been much less concerned about her feelings or sexual conflict."
Waking up women
Marilyn French / Yu Li / Beijing United Publishing Company / 2017
Let's get to know Mira.
She is a small-town girl who loves to read and has been an independent and intelligent child since she was a child. She read Nietzsche and Paine at the age of fourteen, and on the first day of school she finished all the textbooks, and the school had to let her skip grades.
But this was the United States in the 1930s, and the most common occupation for women was "typist", and the theme of life was "family". Her mother's greatest expectation for her was to "marry a good family." In a small, enclosed place, her cleverness and independence make her an outlier.
Over time, she gave in. Like other girls, she got married hastily, wore tight gowns, learned to cook, cleaned up the house, gave birth to two children, and tried to make herself a "good wife and mother". Her husband has a decent job, and she lives in a big house that many people dream of.
She behaves elegantly and always smiles. And only she herself knows that under the calm surface of life, she is silently collapsing...
"Because it doesn't matter if you open or close the door, you end up in a box."
A room of your own
Virginia Woolf / So / CITIC Press / 2019
Woolf's philosophy of charm, the goddess of literature and art, is that the independent way of a smart woman begins with having a room of her own—an independent and free soul is the source of happiness.
Being yourself is more important than anything else. This book originated from Woolf's speech at Cambridge University, and once published, it swept the world and touched millions of readers, and was hailed as "the book of the soul that inspired women's spiritual awakening".
"For both men and women, I see them huddled around on the sidewalk – life is hard and difficult, life is a permanent struggle, it takes a lot of courage and strength." 」
Feminism from scratch
[Japanese] Chizuko Ueno / Lingzhi Lü / Beijing United Publishing Company / 2021
What is feminism? Why do we need feminism? How to think with feminism?
Around the above problems, the famous Japanese scholar Chizuru Ueno and the well-known manga artist Nagako Tabata began a feminist class from scratch. They use humorous language and expressive cartoons to trace the development of feminism, talk about the relationship between mother and daughter, sex, work, marriage, child-rearing and other issues in daily life, and refute stereotypical prejudices about women.
This class not only opened a new journey, but also told us that feminism is not only about women, but also about everyone's daily life.
"They certainly know that they have the advantage of power, and they can never be unconscious. Many men think that they have not touched the light of power and have suffered losses themselves. The reason why they think this way is because they feel that as a man, they should be exposed to the light. ”
Kim Ji-young, born in 1982
[Han] Zhao Nanzhu / Yin Jiaxuan / Guizhou People's Publishing House / 2019
Kim Ji-young was born on April 1, 1982 in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at a hospital in Seoul. Growing up in a family of civil servants, a family of six lived in a house of thirty-three square meters.
She's the kind of average girl you meet every day. Since childhood, Jin Zhiying has had a lot of confusion. The best things in the family were always given priority to her brother, and she and her sister could only enjoy the rest of the food, sharing a room and a quilt.
When she was in elementary school, she was bullied by the boy next door, and she cried and confided in the teacher, but the teacher smiled and said, "Boys are like this, and the more girls they like, the more they will bully her." "When I went to middle school, I often had to mention the salty pig hands on the subway and buses. In school, it is not easy to take it lightly, and there are also male teachers who like to use their hands and feet on female classmates. But they often choose to swallow their anger. Graduated from college and joined a PR firm. She found that although most of her colleagues were women, the executives were almost all men. I had to socialize after work, put up with yellow jokes from customers and endless exhortations.
He married at the age of thirty-one and soon had children at the urging of his elders. In anticipation of "natural" expectations, she quit her job and became a stay-at-home mother. Jin Zhiying felt as if he were standing in the middle of the maze, obviously looking for an exit on the ground, but found that he could not reach the end of the road.
"It's not women's rights that are being fought for, it's that both sexes can be free."