Thoughts on the Theme（old idea）

I have always been interested in the topic of feminism and have accumulated some reading experience. Therefore, I want to focus on feminism in this project.

Recently, I watched a play called Nora: A Doll’s House，which is being presented at Young Vic Theatre and is a radical new version of Henrik Ibsen’s play. Nora, the heroine, is the perfect wife and mother. She is dutiful, beautiful and everything is always in its right place. But when a secret from her past comes back to haunt her, her life rapidly unravels.

This bold new production reframes the drama in three different time periods. The fight for women’s suffrage, the swinging sixties and modern day intertwine in this urgent, poetic play that asks how far have we really come in the past 100 years?

The other reason why I decided to concentrate on feminism is the one-sided portrayal of female image by Chinese mass media. In the news about the Coronavirus in China, there are many reports about female medical staff focus on how their heads are shaved when they go to support Wuhan, or insist on work after abortion. Media is not concerned about the actual working state of women in special circumstances, but about the “appearance”, “body”, “job as a mother or a wife”.

Their sacrifice as a wife and mother has replaced the words of a citizen’s contribution to professional value. Women are often dwarfed in the media as tools for sex, childbitrh.

So I want to study how the mainstream narrative culture formed by these discourses affect chinese professional women’s attitude towards fashion and their dilemma in the construction of social identity.

Reference :

Figure 1: Photo of ‘Nora: A Doll’s House’. Available at:  https://www.youngvic.org/whats-on/nora-a-dolls-house

Figure 2: Female Doctor’s Head being Shaved. Available at: https://m.sohu.com/a/374625362_389516