... believes that her aunt decides to kill herself and her baby together in order to spare the child a life without family or purpose. Kingston also notes that the baby was probably a girl, and as such would already have been considered practically useless to society "a theme that reappears throughout The Woman Warrior ... fantasy leaves battle to return home and care for her son, how the men conscripted in the army are described as "lowly as slave girls," or how ladies with bound feet go on to form a mercenary army. The significance of Kingston's fantasy is not that it transcends time and s...

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