ABSTRACT
In recent years, the divorce rate in China has dramatically increased, and male infidelity is the leading cause of broken marriages. Against this backdrop, a significant number of female netizens have begun to write internet novels about men’s adultery and women’s precarity in marriage. In this chapter, I trace three digital-literary practices which respectively disrupt the discourse of free love, the rhetoric of biological differences and the stigma attached to female divorcées. I argue that by undoing these social norms that justify men’s extramarital affairs and limit women’s life possibilities, women creatively use the internet and digital narratives to seek personal and social change.
