快乐上等：女性怎样自在地活

by Chizuko Ueno, 上野千鹤子, 湯山玲子

女性长久以来都沉浸在结婚生子、组建家庭的想法中。即便好不容易从中解放出来，却不知道接下来去往何处。女性主义学者上野千鹤子和出身音乐世家却不走寻常路的汤山玲子，结合自身经历与社会现实，围绕文化资本、女性主义、性、老龄化等多个主题，在嬉笑怒骂间分享超强“生存技巧”。即便外部环境千变万化，年龄增长，不为自身设限的女性仍能拥有值得期待的未来。

Genres: Feminism

312 pages, Paperback

Published February 1, 2023

About the author

Chizuko Ueno is a Japanese sociologist and Japan's "best-known feminist".

Her research field includes feminist theory, family sociology, and women's history. She is best known for her contribution to gender studies in Japan. As a public intellectual, she played a central role in creating the field of gender studies in Japanese academia. At the same time, her radical tendency and strong character has invited criticism (she described herself as "critical, assertive, and disobedient").

Ueno is a trenchant critic of postwar revisionism and criticizes the whitewashing of Japanese history, which she claims attempts to justify its colonialism, wartime atrocities, and racism both before and after World War II. In particular, she has defended the compensation of Korean comfort women who were forced into prostitution by the Empire of Japan.

Reviews

[ツツ · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not fact-checked. Very causal (conversational). I never liked reading interviews let alone conversations; I think I only finished it because voyeurism (I use this word liberally and non-sexually, not unlike “human-watching”).

Some parts of this book resonate with other things I’ve read all over the place, and this book did help me develop a deeper understanding of those things.

[Lydia Lu · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 ⭐️
The conversation mainly focuses on Japanese society and face the Japanese audience, so having some background info on the Japanese history/culture/celebrity will help a lot. Honestly, no brand-new perspective in this book for me, but the ways they transfer these ideas into refined words (some words intrigued me so much) and claims are incredible. Made so many annotations :)

[Jue JJ · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great inspiring book!

本书记录了两位在我看来是成功女性的代表，且活得非常通透的前辈的对话。上野千鹤子已经是女性主义的名人了，而汤山玲子一点也不输。书里很多让我惭愧的地方，比如有时候我就是她们吐槽的对象，再比如有时候她们思考了我从没在意过的问题。希望自己活得再努力一点！

两人反复提到预测误差，我一直懦弱得觉得要尽量避免预测误差。但勇敢的人会把预测误差当做乐趣。为什么一般人不能自己和自己下棋对弈呢？因为不存在预测误差！

[Sydney · Rating 4 out of 5]

还是不错的 慢慢地更了解上野老师

[Tina · Rating 2 out of 5]

看起来上野是个很喜欢和别人对谈的人，出了好几本这样的书。但我更喜欢书信对谈，而不是短信对谈，这样一人一句，类似剧本的形式弱化了逻辑感也模糊了观点。对比起来「始于极限」内容丰富很多，也更有对谈双方观点交锋、互相切磋的乐趣。

还有我一直没有 get 到为什么一本女权主义的书重复出现最多的词是 311大地震。

[Pang Pang · Rating 3 out of 5]

活得自由是一件很难的事情

[Mar · Rating 2 out of 5]

與兩位對談人的年紀與文化扞格巨大，對日本以外的年輕人來說難以融入，加上對談形式本身不具嚴謹性，翻譯成簡體中文的內容又語句不順，詞不達意，真的不好理解，或許書本身不是問題，而是層層轉譯之下與作者/讀者間的隔閡造成閱讀困境。

[瞌睡人的眼 · Rating 3 out of 5]

There’s nothing new for me.

[Zhen · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.11虽然是日本的事件，距离现在也比较遥远了，但是对于刚刚经历新冠的我们来说，这本书里关于“3.11 之后的生存方式”的对话仍然十分有现实意义。在天灾人祸的席卷之下幸存的一代人，面对房间里的大象，应该选择怎样的生活方式？

对话集的信息效率不是很高，但不妨碍这是一本好读有趣的书，看两位锋芒毕露地对话也觉得很有力量。让女性更畅快地说话，就是快乐的一部分啊~

[kilig · Rating 5 out of 5]

太棒了，非常喜歡！相比起《始於極限》裏以書信對話，這本是更即時的對話，金句頻出，兩位都非常犀利幽默，很敢説。提到的“預測誤差”這個概念，真的讓我很受啓發。