Topic > Analysis of the New Woman by Cai Chusheng - 1048
A society that forces one of its members to choose between slave-like submission and death is extremely unjust, and Wei Ming describes 1930s China as such a society. Chusheng describes every injustice inflicted on Wei Ming as absurdly misogynistic or sexually depraved, describing them as the logical results of a Confucian system that imposes the permanent subjugation of women to men. While New Woman does not suggest specific solutions or reforms that could provide a redress for this social evil, it makes one thing very clear: women deserve the respect and autonomy accorded their male counterparts, and a social structure that rejects this truth does not must go to ruin.
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