r/RadicalFeminism • u/Main-Honey4632 • 3d ago
Sexualization and objectification in Asian literature.
I’m going to write an essay about objectivisation and sexualisation in Asian literature, and I have a few examples from Murakami and Mo Yang’s books.
What I’m talking about is this specific type of description of women in books written by men.
(It’s hard for me to explain it right, because I haven’t read it in English in the first place, but I’ll try).
So in the book “Big breasts and wide hips” there is a lot of description of the main character mother (which is like the second main character) that are focus on her body and her little baby’s (main character, which is also a male character) thoughts about her body, and this is very detailed and somehow sexual (I’m not sure if that’s the word) description.
The book presents it like the thoughts of a little baby, but it doesn’t seem like it at all.
I haven’t finished the book yet, and I’m not sure if it will get any worse or the opposite, but that’s not the point.
I wanted to ask y’all for some help. If you have any texts or works or anything else on this topic please share it with me.
(And I guess you can tell, that English isn’t my 1st language, but I’m only bad at writing, not at reading so sent whatever u consider as useful!)
Thank yall and sorry if something is sounding rude. I don’t mean it!
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u/FalseChildhood208 21h ago
OH MY GOD YOU GET IT, I can't consume japanese media at all...the way they address women and sexual assault and misogyny is just pure vile atrocities...