9. Feminist Acts of Reading: Ariyoshi Sawako, Sono Ayako, and the Lived Experience of Women in Japan

Hartley, Barbara

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“…Many kinds of research discuss Ariyoshi and her works, including those conducted by Hartley (2018), Ikenushi (2018), Elsy (2016), Takahashi (2005), Hartley (2003), Bosha (1997), Mitchell (1994), Loughman (1991), Muta (1990), andMcClain (1977). There are at least three major focuses in a number of these studies, namely on the issue of Ariyoshi's creativity as a woman writer (Hartley, 2018;McClain, 1977;Takahashi, 2005;Bosha, 1997), on Ariyoshi's ideas about Japanese women in various contexts of the period (Mitchell, 1994;Hartley, 2003;Ikenushi, 2018), and various topics of social problems presented by Ariyoshi in her works (Muta, 1990;Loughman, 1991;and Elsy, 2016).…”

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Normative Women and Patriarchal Hegemony in Ariyoshi Sawako’s Hanaoka Seishu no Tsuma (1966)

Ariefa

Pratiwi

2021

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This research examines the depiction of normative women in the Edo period (1603-1868) in the novel entitled Hanaoka Seishu no Tsuma (1966) by Ariyoshi Sawako, a Japanese female writer in the post World War II Showa era. Reflecting on the novel’s normative female characters, it analyzes the silenced voices of women. It will contribute to the discussion on how the normative female figures criticizing the patriarchal hegemony that has not been revealed in the literary canon of the Edo period. This research shows how normative women characters are presented in the text as a feminine strategy to criticize this hegemony. The researchers use feminist criticism theory from Butler’s gender performativity (1990). The study concludes that although normative women characters are commonly represented as men dominating women, those can also be used to criticize the patriarchal hegemony.

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