Startling Plight Of China's Leftover Woman Summary

Introduction

Do you believe in equality? Regardless of gender, age, education, religion, etc. all people should be treated the same. However, not everyone is. This literature review shows that. My literature review is on the Gender Matters set of essays. The first essay is The Startling Plight of China’s Leftover Women by Christina Larsen. This essay is about the unmarried, educated women in China and why they are still unmarried. The second essay is The Invisible Migrant Man: Questioning Gender Privileges by Chloe Lewis. This piece is about the struggles and issues that married male migrants face and have faced. The last is Body-Building In Afghanistan by Oliver Broudy. It is about the men who are unemployed in Afghanistan who spend their time working out. My literature review is written in the following order: Larsen’s essay, Broudy’s

From the rubble they build a gym. In the gym, they build their bodies. And with those bodies, tuned for strength and achievement, they build a nation. When you have nothing, no plumbing, no electricity, no heat, a glass of milk for breakfast if you're lucky, when all you have are your own two arms, your own two legs-and sometimes not even that-that’s where you begin.”(Broudy 313) Broudy thinks that one of the reasons the Afghan men are so into body-building is because it puts them in control of something: their own body. Another reason is to keep them from doing drugs as Afghanistan supplies a large portion of the world’s opium. One Afghan man says that “Physical fitness is the basis of good character and good character is the basis of success.”(Broudy 317) According to the author, in order to survive in an inhospitable place like Afghanistan, you have to be a fighter, someone that does not ever give up. Broudy asked a young Afghan boy what he wanted to be when he grew up. The little boy said he wanted to be an engineer. The youth in Afghanistan, at least according to Broudy, want to