Clara Schumann s Artistic Achievement from the Sexism Point of View;

This thesis analyses black women characters in Toni Morrison s novels and reveals their different characteristics and experiences,which suggests a direction to self-liberation for the black women who are put under the duel oppression of racism and sexism.

The oppressive silence results from the Chinese sexism with its silencing measures that confines No Name Aunt and Moon Orchid in silence.

Womanism has become an important part of Afro-American women s liberation cause since 1980s because of its emphasis on the four particular qualities of black women s struggle: anti-sexism, anti-racism, Afracentrism and humanism.

It is just like an onion with many layers: the story itself displays a common gender picture in the contemporary society with conspicuous pity upon the weaker sex;beyond the words is the hidden writer s unconscious yield to the male-centered values; its dichotomy thinking and gender essentialism more directly challenge feminists endurance.

Feminism destructed gender essentialism in the background of the destruction post-modern pluralism made to essentialism.

Feminism has mounted vehement criticism on gender essentialism, the core of the traditional gender culture, both Chinese and foreign.