Women In Kobo Abe's The Woman In The Dunes

Although the position of women in the postwar of Japan has been improved slightly, men still occupy the dominant position, and women as the vulnerable group that lack of self confidence and dominated by others. At the same time, they still need to face many problems by themselves, and the most important thing is to find a way to live. Like the story “The Woman in the Dunes” by Kobo Abe, the woman, whose husband and child bury in the sand and die, lives in the dunes along. The only way she contacts to the outside of the world is a rope ladder hangs from the top of the dunes by the villagers. Meanwhile, she has to keep shoveling the sand to prevent buried in the sand and protect her house; however, the work is endless because the new sand will