Translating Stanadayini as Breast-Giver: on Female Symbolization and the Conspiracy of Women
Postcolonial feminism opines Western white women rigidly promote and impose their notion and the methods of fighting for gender liberation on women from Third world neglecting their own different nationalisms and different contexts, which has become a new cultural tyranny and left the women from Third World in the state of collective aphasia. What’s more, the oppression given to women by various social forms has gradually been transformed into women’s own subconscious recognition, which constitutes a huge conspiracy with the patriarchy. Based on the translation of in English and Chinese edition,the paper combines the fate symbolized of Chinese women in different periods and the labour division in social and family life of Indian women and demonstrates that women has become the venue of various struggles at a time of political struggle and national fate so as to point out the new approaches and new thinking for women emancipation of Chinese and Indian women.
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