Books
by Cho Nam-Joo
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 |
Kim Jiyoung is born into a society where being female unashamedly casts you into a second-class role from birth, when you should have been a boy, through childhood when your brother gets his own room, then as a teenager being blamed for late-night harassment, next passed over for promotion by a male and finally becoming a wife who runs the home, does the laundry, bears the children, gives up her career. She's acting strangely, feeling depressed, going mad. I'm not surprised. Is it so much better here?
(Jenny Baker - bwl 101 Summer 2021) |
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