No Name Woman By Maxine Hong Kingston, And Leftover Women...

Society has evolved much through time and has never settled; it keeps going as different minds and points of view change its direction. Through history, women have been the epitome of weak compared to men, since history started to be recorded women have claim to suffer from inequality and forced to follow expectations which represent the consequences of the disequilibrium between genders. Although it has become less evident through time, women still suffer from inequality and literature is evidence of it. Three good examples are Nervous Conditions by tsitsi dangarembga, No Name Woman by Maxine Hong Kingston, and Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China. In each of these examples, an abused woman is hiding behind her reality but consequently, rebels to seek equality. In Nervous Conditions, Tambu s parents chose to send their male kid to school while she was ignored and forced to work to pay for her education, in No Name Woman Kingston s aunt had an adulterous affai r and, even worse, probably produced a female child from the sexual encounter, and in Leftover Women, the narrator walk the readers through the economic disbalance between genders in China. In the book Nervous conditions, Tambu is a girl determined to seek a better life through education but is surprised by her parent s decision of investing in their male kid only. There is much literature that protests the disadvantages of women living in a biased society that favors men, and this book is a