Saranya, V M (2023) Marital Perspectives: Differences in Traditional Gender Role between China and America under Feminity. Marital Perspectives: Differences in Traditional Gender Role between China and America under Feminity, 7 (2). ISSN 2456-5571

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Abstract

Chinese immigrants occupy a major section in America. Immigrants continue to practice their own customs and tradition even though
they resolve in America. Many Chinese American writers have been renowned by the problems reflecting Chinese diaspora in America.
Amy Tan is a Chinese American female writer garnered attention in her debut novel The Joy Luck Club. It deals about the four pairs of
American-born daughter and China-born mother facing psychological and emotional conflicts by their own marital views under different
cultural ideology. Marriage is an important part of women’s life and it is also an essential topic between American and Chinese cultural
communication. The aim is to deeply understand the differences of martial view between China and America culture. The paper
discusses traditional gender roles of women in the novel. The analysis carries three traditional gender roles in America, i.e.
Responsibility of women on the behalf of the mother at young age; women’s rights in marriage; women in expressing her true self;
Women and suffering and the last women and suffering. The gender stereotypes are formed by traditional gender roles. The study also
deals about how the main character accepts and rejects the traditional gender role. The analysis finds out that the women’s work is
related to the gender stereotype. The paper also deals about the experience of Chinese immigrant in America through mental and
physical illness, loss of alienation and homeland, clashes between different cultures and their quest for identity.
Keyword: martial view, ideology, immigrant, traditional gender role, responsibility, gender stereotype

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: martial view, ideology, immigrant, traditional gender role, responsibility, gender stereotype
Divisions: PSG College of Arts and Science > Department of English
Depositing User: Mr Team Mosys
Date Deposited: 26 Sep 2024 09:27
Last Modified: 26 Sep 2024 09:27
URI: https://ir.psgcas.ac.in/id/eprint/2280

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