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A 5 page review of the feminist implications of this novel depicting the trials and tribulations of Chinese American daughters as they are impacted by the past experiences of their mothers in pre-Communist China. The feminist overtones of “The Joy Club” are impossible to miss. It is replete with sexism and also such issues as racism, stereotyping, and ethnocentricity. The cry of Asian women all over the world that for centuries the society within which they lived had bound their feet but no longer would that society be allowed to bind their minds is eloquently voiced by Amy Tan. No additional sources are listed.
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File: AM2_PPjoyLck.rtf
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Amy Tans novel "The Joy Luck Club" is outwardly the story of friendship, trials, and tribulations. The story serves a much greater
function than simple entertainment, however. It also provides an opportune window into a particular time in history, a time in which the feminist movement was just beginning to gain
momentum and a time in which the concept of cultural diversity and its impact on even the most basic aspects of life was beginning to be better understood. Amy
Tans "The Joy Luck Club" can, in fact, be used to specifically illustrate the sociological construct of feminist theory. Tans novel is an
account of eight women as their lives begin in 1949. It quickly becomes apparent, however, that the present lives of these women are integrally tied to what has occurred
in the past. Four of these women were born in China but after experiencing many of the traumas of the raging war in China, manage to find their way
to San Francisco. The remaining four women were also of Chinese descent but had been born in the United States. The link between the two groups was that
of mother and daughter, four descended from four. Despite the mother daughter bond which exists between the four pairs of women
depicted in "The Joy Luck Club", there are tremendous cultural disparities. While the original four have been brought up in traditional Chinese culture, their daughters have experienced an intwinement
of Chinese and American culture. The contrast which results emphasizes many aspects of the concepts of feminism and, more specifically, the feminist theory in sociology.
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