Women writers take it upon themselves to probe deeply, drawing on their own life experience, into the mental world of women as well asthe complexity of their human nature and thefundamental perplexity in their innermost hearts.“Somatic writing” is a form of women’s “somatic"emancipation, but then it gets bogged down in“somatic” melancholy. It is this perplexity frombeing kept within the “confines of the heart” thataffects the progress of contemporary women’smental emancipation.
