ASIA 254 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Occupational Inequality, Disfigurement, Sadomasochism
Document Summary
Entry-level office work for a short term. Women"s ribu movement in the 60s and 70s. Emerged in parallel to other social movements. Women"s protest against male-dominant strikes at uni during the late 60s. Women protested vietnam war movement in oct 1970. Common theme in women"s writing in the 60s and 70s. Violence performed by or fantasized by women. Attempt to control or narrativize their own bodies. No longer the object of male"s gaze. Jun"ichior makes it pretty whereas taeko makes it disturbing. Published toddler-hunting in 1961 at the age of 35. Taeko survived tuberculosis, married late, and childless. Masochistic sxual relationship with a younger man w no string. Takes pleasure in sadistic imagination of a boy being physically punished. Approach to sexual activity and to life. Every twitch on the rope brings forth pitiful, horrifying screams . Because boys are similar but also different. The boy does not pass out in her fantasy. Last passage written from pov of boys.
