Gender-Related Differences on Maxine Hong Kingston's Piece

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July 2, 2021
Literature has been one of the main avenues of social change throughout humankind's history. It acts as a portrayal of both manifest and underlying social issues that affect everyone. Accordingly, in Kingston's piece entitled No Name Woman, the author has noted how power differentiation and discrimination between men and women has been consistently present in varying influences throughout the culture.
One of these gender-related differences in power is the difference in 'perception' about the identity of men and women in China. In the story, Brave Orchid said that "In China, your father had a sister who killed herself. She jumped into the family well. We say that your father has all brothers because it is as if she had never been born." This manifestation shows that as compared to men, women are perceived as both powerless and less important ...