“Breasts and Eggs” Mieko Kawakami (2008) Review | Women’s normality, society’s taboo

Breasts and Eggs
Mieko Kawakami, 2008
乳と卵
川上未映子
Read in 2020.05
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✔ A new wave of Japanese female author
✔ Challenging the expectations of patriarchy 
✔ Women and their bodies


🔽 Review summary 🔽

★★★★★ Women looking at each other, women being looked at by each other. This is everyday stuff, a mundane, but why does it have to be a taboo to talk about women's normality? Sharp and warm.


🔽 Book review and notes 🔽

There's no other stories like this.

3 women, 3 days.
What does it mean to be a woman?
It goes on about sexual "tools" and about reproduction "tools" and menstruations that just happen in between
Women looking at each other, women being looked at by each other.
This is everyday stuff, boring, a mundane, but why does it have to be a taboo to talk about women's normality?
In the original Japanese it's written in a way that's not easy to read mixed with Osaka dialects, there was nothing like this before Kawakami, a story that talks about the truth in everyday life. Her theme and storytelling is sharp, but her writing is warm.

Today her books can be found in English and many other languages, but naturally I wait to get them in Japanese!

 

🔽 Where to buy / Summary and more info 🔽

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Breasts and Eggs: A powerful and intimate novel about what it means to be a woman in modern Japan

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Breasts and Eggs: A powerful and intimate novel about what it means to be a woman in modern Japan

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