Liberty Attained From Labor

This paper attempted to analyze the four women's labor form in Yan'an literatureofficial labor, productive labor, domestic labor and birth, combined with experience of the writers, policy documents and historical context, sorting Yan'an Literature intricate female discourse, try to restore the complexity of women's liberation in Yan'an period and complete landscape, and to evaluate the contributions and limitations.The second chapter discussed the o fficial female image. This chapter was divided into two section: typical and atypical official women. Official women continues the exodus of "Nora" topic and "see / be seen" structure, transformed the desirous gaze in The Left-wing Writers Union novels into powerful gaze.Then through literacy classes and military training, suffering people be saved, showing modern and de-gendering characteristics. Atypical official women questioned the normative discourse because of the fissure between them and the norms. Atypical official women were the portrayal of women writers, women writers' female standard and intellectual elite perspective made their writing conflict with Yan'an regime. After rectification, writers consciously accepted the Mao discourse appeal.The third chapter discussed the female labor hero image going in for productive labor. After Central Committee of the Communist Party of China's Decision about Currently Women Movement in Anti-Japanese Base A reas promulgated, productive labor became the primary solution of the women liberation.This chapter is divided into two part, the first were labor heroes, the second were textile heroes transformed from "loafers". Female labor hero image emerged new body aesthetics: robust and powerful,de-gendering. And bullied wife stood up, built female subjectivity, but this "stand up" happened in same gender. Female "loafers" through "complained" to achieve the class identified, completed "turn the heart", then through taking part in textile work to stand up. Female bum revitalize, appearance, clothing, health conditions have changed, and be incorporated into a new family ties and social relations by recombinant families and mutual aid.The fourth chapter discussed the image of female domestic labor and birth, also divided into two selections: housewives and mothers. Section I, housewives in text mentioned in previous two chapters mostly were anonymous and spoken by narrators. They anonymous women were not the prime movers of the stories, but widespread everywhere in the diffuse structure of the text. Sadistic- dual functions made them can not be saved as young women. Ding Ling expressed her concerns and worries for housewives' fate. With intertextuality reading with the Impression of International Women's Day, it' s not difficult to find that Ding Ling using a unique narrative strategy to satirize the power discourse. Section II, through analyzing Cao Ming' novel Crazy Comrade, investigated the fracture between revolutionary discourse and women' s own life experiences, and the damage to the female body causing by the fracture.