Chinese American Women's Sexual Subversion and Family Conflict: From Saving Face to Face

• Main Author: 李韻如
• Other Authors: Ying-ying Chien
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9x28ft

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 應用華語文學系 === 101 === Saving Face by Alice Wu and Face by Bay-Sa Pan are two films regarding how Chinese women in the US face cultural and generation conflict regarding sex, marriage and gender roles. Under the influence of sexual and gender liberation from the West, Chinese women marsh between traditional Chinese ideologies and the West. While generation gap becomes the huge conflict in Chinese immigrant families, Chinese women also need to overcome their racial and gender minority. This essay focuses on the history of Chinese women in US. From stereotypic prostitutes to housewives and lower working class, Chinese women strive for higher education and professional jobs in various fields while they elevate family status in their homes. From individualism to Chinese ideology which focuses on family relationship, generation gap among Chinese family has been transformed over time and different history background. Borrowing plots from related films, the essay explores Chinese women and their immigrant parents have different attitudes toward sexual desires, pre-marital sex, sex liberation, homosexuality, interracial relationship and mother’s role.