"Marriage is up to me" Author: Ueno Chizuko / [Japanese] Mizunoda Stream Publisher: Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House

You can get married or not. You can have children or not.

A woman's worth in life does not depend on this.

Whether in China or Japan, the number of "single people" is increasing.

So what if you don’t get married?

——Chizuko Ueno sent to Chinese readers

As a woman, the last piece of the puzzle is a child. If this piece of the puzzle is not included, Japan will never recognize that this person is a complete woman. This is also the discrimination I have always suffered as a "loser".

——Chizuko Ueno

If I exist in a hundred parallel universes, in eighty of them I would not choose to get married, and in ninety-nine of them I would not have children.

——Water without field airflow

Chizuko Ueno has witnessed her parents' discord, her mother's silent endurance for the sake of her child, and the long-term discrimination against women in society. She had an idea: "If I live this kind of life in the future, it would be too unworthy."

Mizunota, who became a mother by mistake, struggled in the battle of raising children. She worked longer hours than her husband, but managed the entire household by herself. In order to keep the family running smoothly, Mizunota had to persuade her husband bit by bit, asking for his help and understanding. She often felt uneasy: "Will what I do make it more difficult for all women to work..."

Two sociologists, whose age difference is almost that of mother and daughter, discuss the plight and rights of women. From slumber to awakening, how can we escape the suffering of being a woman?

★Specially customized postcards from Chizuko Ueno sent to Chinese readers.

★Following "Misogyny" and "Beginning with the Limit", Chizuko Ueno has another blockbuster new work!

★Move towards a society where people can freely choose not to marry, get married, or have children!

"There are certainly reasons for not getting married. On the contrary, I would like to hear from those who choose to get married and have children. What are their reasons? Is it because everyone does it? Because it is natural? Or because it is something everyone will inevitably experience? After removing the factors of customs and norms, how many people would choose to get married and have children?"

Whether it is marriage or childbirth, it is a personal choice of every independent man and woman. People do not marry and have children for anyone other than themselves.

★Well-known feminist scholar × sociologist who “mistakenly” became a mother: We are fighting a desperate battle with “how to escape the suffering of being a woman”, building up feminism while paying the price.

"This society is not so much about 'discriminating against women' as it is about 'favoring men'."

Mothers will not choose to let their daughters become part of the organization because they themselves have experience as female white-collar workers and have seen too much of how women are treated in organizations, so much that they want to vomit.

★Uncover the "invisible gender exploitation" behind the workplace, housework, parenting, etc.

★My parents, my husband, and my children don’t understand my life at all, so how could they understand everything I will experience in my marriage.

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