FemaleWorkers Exploitation and Their Great Fights Towards Justice in Gail Tsukiyama's Women of the Silk (1991) and Melanie Marnich's These Shining Lives (2010)

Abstract

This paper investigates the female workers’ exploitation and their great fight towards justice in Melanie Marnich’s play These Shining Lives (2010) and Gail Tsukiyama’s novel Women of the Silk (1991). In the light of the Feminist, Marxist, and Marxist Feminist literary theories, this comparative study discusses the issues women face at the domestic and public sphere of the Interwar America and China. Thus, this present research paper illustrates the different forms of patriarchal practices that American and Chinese women endure within their households. In addition to the diverse shapes of capitalist exploitation they experience in their workplace. Most importantly, through emancipator thoughts of Feminism and Marxism, this study exposes the steps that working women adopt to overcome the capitalist exploitation and claim their rights