摘 要随着女性主义文学的不断发展，研究观点层出不穷。我们在文学批判的领域里可以发现，有关文学作品中女性主义的研究已成为了女权倡议者关注的焦点。而喜福会正是这方面的代表作之一。本文基于谭恩美这部小说，尝试分析母女两代人的奋斗历程和相互的影响,从而体现女性主义的内涵。 无论是母亲还是女儿，经历了作为传统女性的社会角色所带来的痛苦后，她们以各自的方式找到了自我，不能消极等待，而是要打破传统，寻找自我的命运出路。作为华裔美国女性，首先，她们是欧美世界中的中国人；其次，她们是东方男性世界中的女性；再次，她们还是西方世界中的中国女性。深受三重身份压迫之苦的女性争得发言权，描述中美文化差异所造成的母女之间迥异的奋斗之路。 关键字：喜福会；母女；命运论；女性觉醒；奋斗 iiTable of ContentsAbstracti摘 要ii1. Introduction11.1 Introduction of Amy Tan11.2 Overview of The Joy Luck Club11.3 Literature Review22. Female Struggling experience in The Joy Luck Club42.1 Introduction of Feminism42.2 Mothers experience42.2.1 Suyuan Woos story42.2.2 An-mei Hsus story42.2.3 Lindos story52.2.4 Ying-yings story62.3 Daughters experience62.3.1 Jing-mei Woo62.3.2 Rose Hsu Jordan62.3.3 Lena St. Clair73. The Reason and Embodiments of Female Struggling83.1 The Main Reason for the Different Experience of Struggle83.2 Different Embodiments of Struggle93.2.1 Family Concept93.2.2 Values94. Conclusion11References12Acknowledgements131. Introduction1.1 Introduction of Amy TanAmy Tan was born in Oakland, California, in 1952, whose works explore mother-daughter relationships. Her parents, both are Chinese immigrants, eventually settling in Santa Clara. When Tan was in her early teens, her father and one of her brothers died of a brain tumor within months of each other. During this period, Tan learned that her mother had been married before in China. Tans mother had divorced her first husband, who had been abusive, and had fled China in 1949. She left behind three daughters, whom she would not see again for nearly forty years.After losing her husband and son, Tans mother moved her family to Switzerland, where Tan finished high school. During three years, mother and daughter argued about Tans college and career plans. Tan eventually followed her boyfriend to San Jose City College, where she earned a bachelors and a masters degree in English and linguistics, despite her mothers wish that she study medicine.After Tan married her boyfriend, Louis DeMattei, she began to pursue a Ph. D.in linguistics. She later abandoned the program in order to work with developmentally disabled children. Then she became a freelance business writer. Although she was successful, she found writing for corporate executives dissatisfied. She began to write fiction as a creative release.Meanwhile, Tans mother was suffering from a serious illness, and Tan resolved to take a trip to China with her mother if she recovered. In 1987, after her mother returned to health, they traveled to China, where Tans mother was reunited with her daughters and met her half-sisters. The trip provided Tan with a fresh perspective on her mother, and it served as the key inspiration for her first book, The Joy Luck Club. Soon after its publication in 1989, The Joy Luck Club garnered enthusiastic reviews, remaining on the New York Times best-seller list for many months. It won both the National Book Award and the L.A. Times Book Award in 1989.Tan has written several other bestselling novels, including The Kitchen Gods Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetters Daughter and Saving Fish From Drowning. She also wrote a collection of non-fiction essays entitled The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings. And her most recent novel Saving Fish From Drowning. In addition to these, Tan has written two childrens books: The Moon Lady ( 1992) and Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat ( 1994), which was turned into an animated series airing on PBS. She also appeared on PBS in a short spot encouraging children to write.1.2 Overview of The Joy Luck ClubAnd the theme of The Joy Luck Club focuses on the manifestation of feminism. How the Chinese-American woman struggle for their lives with a very complex identities? Firstly, they are Chinese in the western country; then, they are the women of eastern male world; furthermore, they are Chinese women in the western world. Describing the struggle of the women even though the mothers and daughters effected by different culture. The Joy Luck Club is a Chinese American writer Amy Tans first novel, is also famous for her, that is published success, then had consecutive top eight New York Times best seller lists and soon adapted into films by the same name, far-reaching influence. This book is the United States in 1989, one of the four best selling books, has won numerous awards. The Joy Luck Club contains sixteen interconnected stories about conflicts between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-raised daughters. In 1949, the four immigrants met at the First Chinese Baptist Church in San Francisco and agreed to continue to meet to play Mah jong. They called their Mah jong groupThe Joy luck Club, formed in China by one of the mothersSuyuan Woo, in order to lift her friends spirits and distract them from their problems during the Japanese i