Dube - Pan Chao

[Eva Morales]

Pan Chao conveys how women should act and what virtues they need to have in order to serve their husband and others well. It inculcates selflessness, respect, familial and domestic duties, silence, submissiveness, hygiene, and obedience. It was produced to control women and to tell them to accept the social norms. This practice has been effective, because these “acceptable” man-made concepts were taught to women, therefore women continued to project the only concepts they were taught. It isn’t the women’s fault that they have been conditioned to think this way, but it is their job to acknowledge the fact that spreading that “ideal woman” ideology is problematic (because they aren’t able to be their own person) and it is their job to acknowledge that they are part of the problem. They can redeem themselves by realizing that the purpose of this ideology is to control them (women). Then they must to bring awareness to the lack of equality that exists between both genders and fight for equal existence.

 

I am unfamiliar with a book telling men how to behave, then I don’t see why women should abide by this man-made construct.