The Woman Dies
Aoko Matsuda, 2021
女が死ぬ
松田青子
Read in 2025.11
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✔ A collection of 52 short stories
✔ Feminist theme
✔ Funny and fierce critique of Japanese patriarchy
🔽 Review summary 🔽
★★★★★ What did I just read. It's about strong women, but it's not only that it's full of female rage. She flies to wherever she wants as a modern Tinker Bell, and she throws up whatever she wants in the toilet. Fabulous.
🔽 Book review and notes 🔽
What did I just read.
My first time reading Aoko Matsuda, and as you can see from the title it's about strong women, but it's not only that it's full of female rage (also feminine rage).
It's not explosive anger though, it's the anger that's slowly simmering.
"I hate the girl you like" or "a male sensitivity" these are the things she hates and she tells you in your face with "the woman dies" and "demonstration of misogynies demolished".
It might be surprising for some but in Japan it's still normal to say "typically female" or "it talks to the female sensitivity" in advertisement or magazines.
She won't give in.
Whatever the others say, she flies to wherever she wants as a modern Tinker Bell, and she throws up whatever she wants in the toilet.
Fabulous.
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