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《喜福会》是20世纪80年代末著名美国籍华裔女作家谭恩美所作。这本小说也是她最知名的作品，已经被翻译成35种语言。一出版即大获成功，当年曾经连续八个月荣登《纽约时报》畅销书排行版。谭恩美在书中主要描述了四位从中国移民的母亲和她们在美国出生的女儿的遭遇和命运。本文正是从女性意识的角度，分析和研究小说中的母亲和女儿们是如何打破沉默，为自己的自由和权利而奋斗的。本文分为六个部分。第一章主要介绍了谭恩美和她的作品，第二章，是评论家们对这部小说研究现状。三四章主要介绍了《喜福会》中母亲和女儿的女性意识。尽管她们处于完全不同的社会环境，但两代人都受到了男性的压迫。母亲选择离开自己的国家在美国定居，女儿则打破了她们的婚姻枷锁。面对男性的压迫，她们从沉默到爆发，最终女性意识得到了觉醒。第五章主要阐述了母亲和女儿们意识觉醒的原因。最后一部分是结论。在当代，女性歧视在某些地方仍然存在。所以，对女性主义主题的研究还是很有意义的。

关键词：《喜福会》；压迫；女性意识；觉醒；反抗

Contents

1. Introduction 1

2. Literature Review 2

3. The Awaking and Resistance of Mothers 3

3.1 Traditional Chinese Women’s Social and Family Status 3

3.2 The Mothers’ Female Consciousness 4

4. The Awaking and Resistance of Daughters 7

4.1 Chinese American Women’s Social and Family Status 7

4.2 The Daugthers’ Female Consciousness 8

5. The Reasons of Female Consciousness in The Joy Luck Club 10

5.1 The Reasons of Mothers’ Female Consciousness 10

5.2 The Reasons of Daughters’ Female Consiousness 11

6. Conclusion 12

Works Cited………………………………………………………………...13

1. Introduction

Amy Tan was among the first Chinese American writers who brought Chinese American culture and experience to a wide circle of both Chinese and American readers. Like mothers and daughters in Tan’s novel, Tan had a strained relationship with her mother who was a traditional Chinese woman. According to Amy Tan “they wanted us to have American circumstance and Chinese characteristics.”(Tan Amy, 1989: 21) In The Joy Luck Club, we could find Tan’s shadow from at least one of the daughters or even more. The main characters of this novel are four Chinese women and their Chinese American daughters. Four mothers were all from China and experienced a lot in China. They suffered from the cruelty of the war, the betrayal of their husband and the oppression of the family. At the beginning, they just resigned themselves to their unfortunate fate. As time went on, they could not put up with them and began to fight for themselves. Gradually, they began to realize that “it is their faith rather than their fate that can change their life.”(Tan Amy, 1989: 34) Eventually they immigrated to the United State and built up new families. They expected that they could bury their sorrow experience in the deep heart and began to live a new life in American. So when they had children, they put too many expectations to them. However, when daughters were in low position in the families, their mothers persuaded their children to be brave from their own special experience in China. At last, their American daughters learned how to be brave and say no to their husbands.

Women in China were always in a low position in the Feudal society. The first generation of Chinese American women immigrated to the United States. While in most circumstances, men just regarded their wives as tools to delivery babies. Most women had no choice but to obey their husbands and they kept silent. However, in The Joy Luck Club, it presented how four mothers broke silence and their daughters fought for their own right in the family. This reflected the awakening of female consciousness. “Feminism begins with the premise that women"s and men"s position in society are result of social, not natural or biological factors. They do believe that women"s experiences, concerns, and ideas are as valuable as those of men and should be treated with equal seriousness and respect.”(L.Andersen, 2001: 9) Feminism is a collection of movements aiming at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights for women. In addition, feminism seeks to establish equal opportunities for women in education and employment. Although women’s situations were different, they had the same life experience that they were in a lower position and had no right to vote. Moreover, they had a slim chance to work. In a word, women were treated as the appendage of men. In the 17th century, it appeared that English people Maried Astell, which put forward points about feminism. “Sex differences are biological, but gender encompasses all the traits that a culture assigns to and inculcates in males and female.” (Kottak, 2003: 185) At that time, England was going into industrial society and many factories began to accept women workers. Meanwhile, the division of labor of society had been changed. Women did not belonging to home any more, and they could go out to find a job.

This thesis is divided into six parts. The introduction part illustrates Amy Tan’s literary life and her first novel The Joy Luck Club. It also reviews the research done on this novel. Chapter One is the brief introduction to Amy Tan, her work and the definition of the female consciousness in the paper to analyze the material. In Chapter Two, there will be the literature review. Chapter Three mainly discusses the awakening of mothers in the novel. They began to break the silence and voice their own opinions. Chapter Four aims to introduce the awakening of daughters in the novel. Chapter Five presents some reasons of female consciousness about mothers and daughters. The final chapter concludes that every rebellion of women’s consciousness. They begin to fight for their own right, which is not only a progress in women’s status, but also in the whole society. This paper aims at making a clear demonstration and analysis of awakening of female consciousness that Amy Tan has depicted throughout The Joy Luck Club, delving into the impact of female consciousness by combining the social background of that time. In the contemporary days, female discrimination still exists in some parts of the world. Violence, crimes, conflicts and even terrorism, induced by female prejudice and oppression, still happen occasionally. Traditional values of family that men are superior to women are also attributed to the root of female prejudice. So the study of this novel’s theme—female consciousness is still meaningful in China and America, even in the whole world.

2. Literature Review

In the previous studies, the scholar and critics has studied that female consciousness which is confined to mothers and their daughters in the four novels. For example, in the The Female consciousness of the Joy Luck by Wang XiaoXiao and Fan Hui mainly analyze four mothers how to get out from feudal society in the patriarchal life and pursue their happiness, eventually achieve their American dream. Such as a character Lindo in the novel, she had no freedom in marriage and had no right to control her body and fate. Under the oppression of her mother-in-law and her husband, she could not bear it at last. So she decided to change her fate and fight for her freedom. She made use of superstition to scary them. Eventually, she made it and got a ticket for the United States. This is a concrete manifestation of female consciousness from scratch. Some other critics, Li Wei pays more attention to the fact that daughters who are marginalized by Native American culture how to break the silence and strive for their own happiness and freedom in the From Silence to eruption-The Analysis of postcolonial feminism in the joy luck club. And still some critics, such as Sun Jingxin, mainly analyzes from the perspective of the Western cultural difference in the Women"s self-worth and status awakening and struggle.

However, few studies have in-depth exploration of two separate groups of mothers and daughters. This paper aims to demonstrate and analyze the awakening of female consciousness that Amy Tan has depicted throughout The Joy Luck Club, trying to delve into the impact of female consciousness by combining the social background of that time.

3. The Awaking and Resistance of Mothers

3.1 Traditional Chinese Women’s Social and Family Status

In feudal society, it was well recognized that women should not be educated. They just stayed at home all day and took care of their family. So their social and family status was too low. At that time, women were submitted to the men. It was believed that women could not equal to men and even that men were a superior creature than women. In a traditional family, men and women had distinctive work and totally different responsibilities. The man goes out to work while the woman looks after the house. Women had few opportunities to communicate with different people and had small social group. Usually, women took granted that it was their obligation to take care of their family. And they regarded home as their mission. So they obeyed their husband and cared for their children, mothers-in law and fathers-in-law. However, in old China, the relationship between women and their mothers-in-law was very complex. Many women were oppressed and even forced to death by their mothers-in-law, which is a key to study the relationship between the both. Such examples were set a lot by many traditional women. In some cases, women had an opportunity to get a different treatment if they were born in a rich family or they delivered a boy. If not so, for most traditional women, their whole life was tragic and they had no choice but keep silent.

3.2 The Mothers’ Female Consciousness

3.2.1 An-Mei Hsu’s Mother’s Rebellion

Tan first casted her sympathetic eyes on the situation of women in the patriarchal system of old China. Women belonged to the men. Owning rights for them were a daydream. An-mei Hus’s mother was a widow who had a more tragic fate. One day, her mother went to a temple to pray for his father. Unfortunately, a sick woman cheated her who was the fist concubine of Wu Qin, a rich merchant. Soon after, her mother was enforced to become the third concubine of Wu Qin. However, her mother was not understood by her family, especially An-Mei’s mothers-in-law. Eventually, her mother was driven away by her mother-in-law. But in a traditional Chinese family, if a women’s husband died, she had no right to remarry, which means showing no loyalty to her husband and no respect for family’s ancestors. When An Mei was four years old, she was taken away by her mother from her pervious family. Then she lived with her mother in Wu Qin’s house. There An Mei saw her mother’s tragic life. Wu Qin had one wife and three concubines, who were tart and acerbic. In Wu Qin’s eyes, An Mei’ mother was just a tool to entertainment. At the beginning, her mother had no choice but to swallow all her sadness. Until one day night, her mother was ravaged by Wu Qin. She began to rethink what is the best way to protect her child and herself instead of submitting to the endless humiliation. Eventually she killed herself by overeating opium. After her mother died, Wu Qin’s family was scared that her mother’s ghost would come back home. So Wu Qin compensated her mother for a formal funeral. They scared An Mei as well. At last, An Mei left Wu Qin’s home and free from their rude treatment. “An-mei’s mother guaranteed her daughter and son’s position in the family. So it can be said that a brave mother comes out of silence. It can be safe to say that silence does not mean that they have no thought and instead silence lends power to people.”(Wu Suhong, 2010: 25). As a result, the death of An-mei’s mother reflected that she began to be aware of female consciousness instead of no thought.

3.2.2 Lindo Jong’s Unfortunate Marriage

Lindo was another example. As a commodity, she had no freedom in marriage and had no right to control her body and fate. When she was two years old, she was engaged to Huang Taitai’s son who was still a baby one year younger than her. There was only one thing that she could do—obey the engagement. Even though she knew later that her husband was a bad person.

I had no choice, now and later. That was how backward families in the country were. We were always the last to give up stupid old-fashioned customs. In other cities, a man could choose his own wife, with his parents’ permission of course. But we were cut off from this type of new thought. You never heard if ideas were better in another city, only if they were worse. (Tan Amy, 1989: 51)

So she was promised to the Huang’s son for marriage. And her mother began to treat her as if she belonged to someone else. She taught her daughter how to behave properly when she married. Later when she was a member of Huang, she tried her best to honor her parents’ face. In their wedding, the matchmaker lighted a candle which was a marriage bond that was worth more than a Catholic promise not to divorce. “It meant I couldn’t divorce and I could not ever remarry, even if my husband died. That red candle was supposed to seal me forever with my husband and his family, no excuse afterward.”(Tan Amy, 1989: 59) However, as the time went on, Lindo’s mother-in-law began to feed up with her and complained that she could not delivery a baby. Under this oppression of her mother-in-law, she could not bear it at last. So she decided to change her fate and fight for her freedom. She made use of superstition to scare them. Eventually, she made it and got a ticket for the United States.

3.2.3 Ying-Ying’s Striving for Freedom

Ying-Ying was a beauty girl who was born in the richest families in Wuxi. When Ying-Ying was young, she was cultivated by her wealthy and conservative family. So she had a good behavior. But she was wild and stubborn. At that time, she was so arrogant that she was not interested in any man. Finally she married a man named Lin Xiao, who met her at her aunt’s wedding. However, after marriage, he disappeared for many days and had extramarital relationships with other women. With time going on, Ying-Ying realized his behavior filled with disgust. When Ying-Ying realized she was pregnant, she killed his baby because she hated his husband so much. In her marriage, Ying-Ying was so lonely and helpless. Her husband was selfish and lack of responsibility, abandoning her for no reason. He was not willing to keep loyal and steadfast for his marriage. Finally, Ying-Ying went to the country outside of Shanghai to live with a second cousin’s family. At first, she was in despair and did not work in ten years. She went to the city with both eyes open and dressed in modern suits. So tired of doing nothing for many years, she decided to work and became a shop girl, which made her confident again. And after that, she started her new life and met her second husband who was polite, attentive and honest.

Although Ying-Ying experienced an unfortunate marriage, she did not compromise with her fate. When she was aware of feminism consciousness, she restarted her life. Her tragically ending marriage kept her reminding of Ying-Ying. Do not be in silence and face up to the reality. It was important that women were aware of their right and identity. They started to fight for their voice through all kinds of methods and became independent. In the end, she said “I will hold that pain in my hand until it becomes hard and shiny, clearer. And then my fierceness can come back, my golden side, my black side. I will use this sharp pain penetrate my daughter’s tough skin and cut her tiger spirit loose.”(Tan Amy, 1989: 252). So it was vital to be aware of feminism awareness. Ying-Ying’s former marriage was unfortunate, but it brought her richer experience to face with her life because of her awakening.

The three mothers experienced a lot in China, and they suffered a lot in common. All of them were born in old China where man played a dominant role in the family. All females in the patriarchal society were as if they were standing on stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all followed the same way. They were oppressed and distorted. And “the network of the patriarchal culture was so deep-rooted and omnipresent that it not only destroyed female bodies but also controlled their minds.”(Liu Yi, 2001: 315) They once tried to be an obedient wife or daughter-in-law. To keep her parents’ promise and not disgrace her family, as a wife, Lindo subdued her nature and committed herself to be an obedient and dutiful wife. However, when they were oppressed and had no choice, their female consciousness began to awaken. They were not willing to resign themselves to them any more. As a result, they fought with their husband, mother-in-law and even the feudal system. Besides, they struggled against conventional patriarchal practices and prevalent patriarchal ideologies and challenged to the traditional female role characterized by passivity, self-sacrifice, helplessness and marginalization.

4. The Awaking and Resistance of Daughters

4.1 Chinese American Women’s Social and Family Status

It had been about 170 years since the first generation of Chinese American women immigrated to the United States. After suffering a long and tough hardship, they were gradually accepted by the mainstream of American culture.

From 1830 to 1943, in the American’s eyes, women were just Chinese individual and they were in the society where the men were dominant, which determined that they would not only suffer the racial discrimination, but also the sex discrimination. In the early period of immigration, it was evident that racial and sex discrimination played an important role in the American society, which led to the dilemma where the Chinese-American women were doubly marginalized. Their social groups were so small that they had slim chance to work with Americans. So they were limited in a small community—China Town. Although they had settled down in the United States, they could not free from the Chinese traditional customs the yoke of the immoral standard in the feudal society. They didn’t accept education and could not speak English before they came to America. Most Chinese-American women worked in the China town. As a result, they had few opportunities to communicate with Americans. They had been confined in the family so that they could not be consistent with the mainstream of American Culture, which hindered them to be known by Americans.

If they wanted to be accepted by Americans, it was vital important that they had to abandon their traditional customs to adapt to the new environment and new social systems. Therefore, the distinctive characters and different cultural customs made them be discriminated and disparaged. During World War Two period, the status of Chinese-American improved. The number of Chinese-American women was rising and they had more opportunities to hunt for jobs. They began to walk out of the China Town and met more American people. They had met a lot of obstacles in the process of adapting to the American society and struggling in the area of doubly marginalization. But they did not give up and spared no effort to fight for their freedom. Gradually, their female consciousness awakened. They tried to reject the racial and sex discrimination. Eventually, they realized their self-value and overcame the language obstacles to get the financial independence so that they could improve their status and integrate the American culture.

4.2 The Daughters’ Female Consciousness

4.2.1 Rose’s Finding for Self-value

An-Mei’s daughter, as a modern American female, is an example of racial crimination. She regarded the relationship between her and his husband “Yin” and “Yang.” “Yin” and “Yang” are Chinese notions. Yin means female principle, darkness, passivity, and the unconscious. Yang represents “masculine principle, light, activity, the conscious mind.”(Tan Amy, 1989: 193) Surely, the prejudice was a problem lying between the Native Americans and the migrants.

Ted and Rose got married although her mother disagreed. After getting married, Rose became the victim of her husband. She turned to be a full-time housewife in the shade of her husband. In their daily life, what she did all day was just to pay bill and she gave up her own right to make decisions. Every decision was made by her husband Ted. Ted decided what new furniture they shall buy, where they would go on vacation and so on. Rose conformed to Ted. At the same time, they had less communication. However, when his husband wanted to divorce with her, she realized she was nothing to him. Like a worn-out coat, she was thrown away by her husband. However, she did not try to save her marriage. She dared not speak up to her husband. What she did was that she just turned to her psychiatrist for help. However, her mother An-Mei persuaded her to speak up and fight for her own right. An-Mei told her daughter about her mothers’ experience in China and Rose was moved deeply by her grandmother’s spirits. At last, she had the courage to reject her husband and got the freedom.

4.2.2 Lena’s Striving for Respect

Even though time and place changes, women’s female status and fate can not change. The answer is no. Lena, Ying Ying’s daughter, was born in American and grew up like an American girl. She regarded herself as an independent female. “Someone may wonder that equality in politics, economy, status and so on aren’t the aim of feminism.”(Wu Suhong, 2010: 120) However, in the case of Lena’s situation, the superficial equality between them disguised the real equality. She was an independent woman in terms of her ability to earn money. But the traditional patriarchal virtues unconsciously became the psychic base for her to practice. As a modern American woman, she was trapped by double standards. For one thing, she wanted to be independent, active and creative in her job. For another, she was expected to be dutiful, submissive, and inferior to men. She had a dilemma in the relationship between her and her husband. With her creative ideas, she attributed her success to her husband. What she had done was standing in the shadow of her husband and supported him silently. She even pretended to believe her husband’s word “so we can eliminate false dependencies, be equal, love without obligation.”(Tan Amy, 1989: 163) It was true that Lena no longer relied on his husband for a living, but in her inner and emotional world, she still played a traditional part in conforming to the requirement of a male-dominant society. When faced with the issue of Acting Appointment policy, she wanted to protest. “T wanted to say, ‘no! I’m not really in this way about money, the way we’ve been doing it. I’m really into giving freely.” But I didn’t know where to begin.”(Tan Amy, 1989: 190) Every time when Lena quarreled with her husband because of the balance sheet, she could not stand. Later under the influence of her mother, she realized that when she did not like things, she would stop it. At last, Lena dared to say no to her husband and learned how to get the freedom for herself.

We could see that the relationship between mothers and daughters was in a sisterhood. Mothers did not act as models of patriarchal convention. Born and brought up in both Chinese and American culture, the daughters always felt strange and different from others. Confronted with problems and difficulties in their life, the daughters were lost. They had believed that the American version is much better. But later they also discovered that “there was a serious flaw with the American version, there were too many choices, so it was easy to get confused and pick the wrong thing.”(Tan Amy, 1989: 214) When their daughters fell into the dilemma, they consciously offered advice and comfort them to protect them from repeating their unfortunate experiences, which reflected the women’s consciousness was awakening. Ying Ying tried to share her past with her daughter Lena and made her daughter strong to overthrow the inferior status in the male dominant society of American. They no longer believed that it was their fate that they experienced those unfortunate things. It was their faith rather than their fate that determined their whole life.

5. The Reasons of Female Consciousness in The Joy Luck Club

5.1 The Reasons of Mothers’ Female Consciousness

Mothers in The Joy Luck Club experienced a long period when they broke the silence and fought for their freedom. In the Feudal society, women in China were always in a low position. They subordinated themselves to their husband and their family. However, in most circumstances, women had no right to express themselves. Most women had no choice but to obey their husbands. They were trodden by men but they had to keep silent. They stayed at home all day and could not go out as the girls today. They just stayed at home and took care of their family. Both their social and family status was low. At that time, women were put under the men. In a traditional family, men and women had distinctive work and totally different responsibilities. The man worked outside while the woman had no choice but to stay home. As a result, women’s low social status resulted from low family status. Usually, women believed that it was their obligation to take care of their family. So they obeyed their husband and cared for their home. There was a slim chance to provide them to accept education. In the past, people always held the idea that ignorance is the virtue for women. So under this social and culture background, most of them could not bear. Eventually, they struggled for their freedom and happiness. They left China for America hoping to settle down in a new place and began a new life. Therefore, the terrible social and culture background forced the women to awaken their female consciousness.

Moreover, female consciousness was also linked with their own characters. For example, Ying Ying experienced a lot from her marriage. She was so wild and stubborn that was not interested in any boy. However, she married with a selfish man. Eventually, she dressed up and restarted her new life. So it was obvious that her character was connected with her female consciousness. Another example was Lindo, who was so rebellion. When she was a child, the village matchmaker came to her family and forced her to marry. But she thought “No, it"s not true what some Chinese say about girl babies being worthless. It depends on what kind of girl baby you are.’’(Tan Amy, 1989: 290) So she had a bad temper and was so rebellion. From her own character, we could see that she was not willing to marry a man who she did not love. “The matchmaker bragged about me: ‘An earth horse for an earth sheep. This is the best marriage combination.’ She patted my arm and I pushed her hand away. Huang Taitai whispered in her shrrhh-shrrhh voice that perhaps I had an unusually bad temper.”(Tan Amy, 1989: 198) The matchmaker could saw her character when she was just two years old. After she married, under her mother-in-law’s oppression, she made use of the superstition to scare them and strived for her own freedom because of her creative idea and her rebellion character. Therefore, the mother’s female consciousness was connected to their own characters.

5.2 The Reasons of Daughters’ Female Consciousness

The daughters were born and they grew up in America. Although the first generation of Chinese American women immigrated to the United States and experienced a long and tough suffering, they were gradually influenced by the mainstream of American culture. Gradually, more and more Chinese-American women began to immigrate to America. So the populations of Chinese-American women were increasing. Besides, they began to join the American group instead of being limited into the China Town, which provided them more opportunities to hunt for jobs. So the communication between Chinese-American women and the Americans was more frequently. Some of them accepted American education and got rid of the traditional idea. Under this culture background, they were more independent and had their own ideas. So when Jing Mei’s mother forced her to learn piano, she was brave to say no. When Waverly’s mother showed her trophies to the neighbors, she quarreled with her mother. When An Mei opposed Rose’s white boyfriends, she didn’t submit to her as well. These young women had their own choices. They hated their mother’s old, traditional Chinese concept. They realized the self-value and overcame the language obstacles to get the financial independence so that they could improve their status and integrate the American culture.

Moreover, they were also influenced by their mother. So when they fell into the dilemma, mother consciously offered advice and comforted them to protect them from repeating their unfortunate experiences. Ying Ying shared her experiences with her daughter Lena and made her daughter strong to overthrow the inferior status in the male dominant society of American. She no longer believed that it was her fate that she experienced those unfortunate things. In the end, Lena dared to say no to her husband and had her own choice. Another example was Lena. The issue of Acting Appointment policy existed between her and her husband, which seemed to be equal. However, her husband was her boss and his salary was seven times higher than her. So it was not real equal between her and her husband. As time went on, she could not bear this situation. Her mother realized her terrible situation and taught her to say no to her husband. At last, she rejected her husband bravely. So once they were oppressed to death, they no longer believed that it was their fate. They realized that they could change their life by themselves. For daughters, under the encouragement of their mothers, they no longer did everything as what their husbands asked them to do. “Due to the elevation of the female economic, political, and culture position, female could not tolerate the male coarseness, stubbornness, and imperiousness, and become aware of the male cowardliness, recoil, and begin to scorn and assail the mail.”(Liu Yi, 2001: 317) They knew the importance of fighting for their own rights. The women began to question the idea that male was strong while women was weak. Men did not play important roles in the family. Without them, the women could live on themselves well. The beautiful masks of the male had been torn down and the illusion of the male image had been crushed as well and they were not knights and heroes.

6. Conclusion

The theme about mother and daughter was through all Tan’s famous works, including her first and most well-know novel The Joy Luck Club which received a lot of praises from all kinds of readers. The novel told a story about four mothers and four daughters. Although they were in an absolutely different environment, both two generations were oppressed by male chauvinism. Mothers chose to leave their country and settled down in America and daughters broke their marriage yoke. Facing the male oppression, they changed from silence to eruption, and eventually woke up.

By the description of women’s fate of two generations, we could easily see that the women’s consciousness was increasingly awakening. As to four mothers, when they stayed in China, they were mistreated by their husband as well. However, under this social background, they decided to strive for their freedom and happiness. They came to America and rebuilt their new families. Due to the different language and culture, they found it was hard to involve in the American society. As a result, they attached their dream to their children and let their children accept American’s education. So their daughters were influenced by American culture and became more independent. When they were attached to their husband and had no freedom. Under the social background and their mother’s effective, their female consciousness became consciousness and fought for themselves.

Every rebellion of both mother and daughters showed that the women’s consciousness was gradually awakening. Nowadays, no matter for Chinese women or Chinese-American women, their social position has improved a lot. In China, the female consciousness has awakened because of the implement of reform and opening up policy, the society provides the women to improve a lot of no matter in economy or in politics. With the progress of society, more and more women have been walking outside of their home. They have more independent mind and life value. For most women, they have stronger ability to live better without depending on men. Home is not just their mission of their whole life but a part of their life. So no one can deny that woman is more independent, free and confidence as well as man because of their female consciousness. For most women, they have a stronger ability to live better without depending on men. Home is not just their mission of their whole life but a part of their life. So with the women’s awakening of female consciousness, they became more independent and cherish their life differently.

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