Résumé:
Females are exposed to social rules and restrictions since the day they are born. These cultural
limitations force them to restrict themselves within the box that has been designed for them
by the power hierarchies; neither males nor females are born dominant or submissive,
respectively, they are taught to be ―men‖ and ―women‖ according to their culture‘s standards.
In this research, sociological criticism is applied for the sake of depicting the social and
cultural elements in Amy Tan‘s novel The Kitchen God’s Wife (1991), and then psychological
criticism is devoted to study the effects of culture on the female characters‘s attitudes and
psyche.
