Kitchen Literature In The Perspective Of Feminism

Kitchen, from the ancient patriarchal society, has been considered a family space to imprison female’s vitality and creativity. As a special space writing, kitchen literary also clearly reflects the entrenched patriarchal culture of human. Kitchen is a very special gender cultural space as for the gender oppression suffer from female, the awakening of female self-consciousness and revolt and the development of female’s gender consciousness. Though the space is small, it accommodates the joy, sorrow and tortuous destiny of female in the civilization historical development of human. However, in the traditional sense, the kitchen has long been considered a classic comfort zone of women and various family and social relationships of female can be expanded from the small area and may blossom outward furthermore. Plenty of literatures, films and television programs also focused on a series of activities in the kitchen, such as the housewife of U.S. drama Mad Men and the cook of British drama Downton Abbey......Even the network nowadays also have a lot of new cultural person reveal their emotions toward the kitchen. There is a excellent example that some popular programs about the food such as Late Night Dining Room and A Bite of China shows the sought of people for food. In general, prominent traditional literatures, however, emphasis that women should run around cooking bench and defined such women as small potatoes without creating social value and discourse power. But we should regard this issue with dialectical philosophical point of view. On the one hand, women are forced to be limited to this hidden space, a situation which is similar as their status in families and society. The mothers of the girls will inculcate her daughters with their own experience to engrave the wisdom words before they walk down the aisle. Rumour has long had it that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. From ancient times, people kept a watchful eye on the newly married bride by their ability to do the cooking, which is similar to their situation in the family and society. They cook with sweat streaming down their back to become a touchstone to measure whether they are a qualified housewife. This is in fact a maximum imprisonment to women in backward feudal society. We see this at all times and in all over the world. On the other hand, women can reverse this situation with their own attitude, because such social heritage, in fact, enable women to acquire a relatively independent and free space to protect them from infringement. This is a pure land of women themselves that far from personal preferences of men. The so-called revolution, race, war, regime change are all unrelated to it. At the same time, this land is also far from the"parents" because of the so-called’gentlemen is far away the kitchen’. In the society, women often encounter the conflict of dual roles of family and work. Someone says works will give a complete obedience to families when the conflict of these two roles occurs. As a result,women will lose a lot of jobs and opportunities for promotion, and then their the entire value of life will looked down upon for their low social value. This is a mistaken view which I most unfavorable. So, we must consider the woman as a person, followed by consideration of her gender. As for the present mature stage of feminism, it is no longer a simple fight of women for employment, education or the right to vote, but their identity to create social value.For example, the situation of women gave birth at home, have been excluded from social production, but in my opinion, this can be seen as the greatest pay for the civilization of human. Everyone has the freedom to choose their own lives as long as they are satisfied with their lives. There is no reason to criticize them if they choose to return home and the kitchen, especially they have a chance of fair competition with men. At present, some men return home to support their ambitious wives. Do we have to say they lost their dignity yet? On the contrary, we should respect and understand them. Otherwise we hurt women as well as people who deprive their rights. We have to say that a woman’s greatest tragedy is not distinguished by labor in kitchen or hard to work, but they are a truly woman or not. In this essay, a series literary of the kitchen were studied. We will discuss women’s lives and their living spacewith consideration of the literary of the kitchen related feminism, for example, the issues of male oppression and women’s revolt, and self-development of female consciousness.And it proved that women can still achieve their revolt against patriarchal oppression and realize their value. We will see their extremely strong power in this particular space. The kitchen has been given a new meaning by women in each literature, which fully confirmed the special status of the kitchen in women’s lives and emotions and the close relationship between kitchen and women.