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From Being Desired to Writing Freely--The Expression of Female Subjectivity in When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Jiayi Li

Abstract


By analyzing When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, this essay discusses how the fi lm presents women as women, rather than women as spectacle, and explores how to write freely about women and how to realize de-eroticization and free expression of women. The ideal feminine fi gure does not exist in the male gaze, but the free soul of the woman herself. This essay is mainly discussed the expression of Female Subjectivity in When a Woman Ascends the Stairs.

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Female Subjectivity; When a Woman Ascends the Stairs; Women’s Space

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v7i8.7774

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