Sexual Politics Research Into The Story Of The Stone

The term of sexual politics was raised by American feminism critic Kate Milliet. Her purpose was to reveal the connotation of sexual politics, that is, the concept of power and domination. According to this natural and biological significance of gender, the male could usually gain control and dominance to the women. This power relations were reflected strongly in Chinese literary work The Story of the Stone. In this book, the political structure of Jia family also embodied a dominated and being dominated relationship between the sexes. Taking the father line as the mainstay justly decides the relationship between the master and the follower, there is a impassable class gulf between them. Taking the mother line as the mainstay namely decides the status difference between the child of the principal wife and the concubine, but it only decides the status' difference. Sexual domination, oppression and discrimination practiced by a large feudal family revealed fully in this great work. However, The story of the stone is not just described the sexual history of male and female. As a great work, it is more romance in the narrative, love of men and women. Thus, love, which has various forms of expression, is a technique of expression of sex in The story of the stone. But, the relationship between love and politics embodied many places in these work is a reflection of sex and power in certain degree.The story of the stone, which assembled the essence of Chinese culture and also embodied the uniqueness of Chinese literature and society, has special meaning in the research of sexual politics.