贝蒂·弗里丹与《女性的奥秘》

“幸福家庭主妇”是流行于美国五六十年代并被千百万妇女效仿的典型女性形象。1963年,被称为第二次女权运动之母的贝蒂.弗里丹出版了《女性的奥秘》,她在书中揭露了在“女性的奥秘”所笼罩下千百万美国家庭妇女的无名痛苦,主张妇女突破传统角色的局限,争取自己在社会、家庭中的地位。该书改变了一代美国妇女的生活,被视为20世纪最具影响力的书籍之一。     

赛珍珠作品中的女性主义

本文从女性主义的角度审视了赛珍珠的主要作品。它们真实地呈现了中国妇女社会地位低下的根源,并且通过男性和女性形象的塑造肯定了女性的力量及其特有的反抗模式,提倡人的平等及男女在相处的过程中互相尊重,互相体贴。     

男孩们的麻烦还是女孩们的麻烦？——从校园“阴盛阳衰”现象反观女性权利问题

近两年在高考招生中某些学校出现的男女生录取分数差异、以“美女团”吸引生源和投资等现象,表面上看是为了实现“校园性别平衡”,实际上是以剥夺女性受教育权利为代价的.反观美国《新闻周刊》刊载的《男孩们的麻烦》一文,通过夸大生物性差异,以美国教育政策对女生的过度关注造成了对男生的“逆向歧视”为由,对20世纪60年代以来女权运动的成果进行申讨,实际上也是目前女性遇到的种种问题的投射和缩影.事实证明,女性看似已如愿以偿地获得了很多权利,但在多方面仍存在着不平等.只有人们认同并接受两性各自存在的独特价值及其构成的多元向度的经验之链,构建出一种和谐包容的社会氛围,才能实现两性真正的平等.     

吉姆·克雷斯《传染病屋》的新女性主义书写

西方女性主义思潮的蓬勃发展为女性主义的研究与实践提供了可资借鉴的理论基础与批评范式。英国作家吉姆·克雷斯的第九部小说《传染病屋》以其蕴意深远的多维之美在女性主义的审美解读中焕发异彩。克雷斯聚焦女性与男性的个体与群体形象,创造了新世界中以玛格丽特与富兰克林为代表的新女性与男性形象。克雷斯通过描写逃亡三部曲．勾勒出新女性代表——玛格丽特,展现其蜕变的历程的三个重要阶段。玛格丽特从传统父权制下的“他者”身份过渡为渴望摆脱“他者”地位的具有反抗精神的勇士,到最终实现了具有独立精神、个体意识与男性气质的新女性形象。克雷斯同时展现了富兰克林的女性气质从压抑到爆发的过程,从而塑造了具有女性气质的男性,最终圆满地完成了新女性主义的书写。     

《爱药》的女性主义解读

当代著名印第安女作家路易斯·厄德里克的小说《爱药》对男性人物和女性人物作了二元对立的刻画。男性多无视印第安文化传统,性格暴戾,结果全都成了生活的失败者;而女性人物对待生活的态度更为积极,对印第安传统也更为敬畏。从小说中的四位男性和三位女性人物身上,反映出作者的女性主义创作倾向。     

女性主义追求的最高境界--社会性别

女性主义对性别的社会建构性的强调,只是在证明人的命运是后天决定而非先天注定的,这对于今天女性在社会上的成功具有十分重要的意义.     

女性主义文学及其批评的一种审察--以张爱玲《霸王别姬》中虞姬形象的个案分析为例

张爱玲的小说<霸王别姬>中虞姬形象体现了女性主体意识觉醒的二重性.她沉于男性父语霸权之中,只能以死亡来唤醒女性意识,体现女性主义意识解蔽与塑造的艰难.当代女性主义批评应树立对话与平等的理性观念,使女性主义的价值维度在历史性(时间性)维度中展开,走向批评的理性化.     

Writing resistance together

This piece of writing is a joint initiative by the participants in the Gender, Work and Organization writing workshop organized in Helsinki, Finland, in June 2019. This is a particular form of writing differently. We engage in collective writing and embody what it means to write resistance to established academic practices and conventions together. This is a form of emancipatory initiative where we care for each other as writers and as human beings. There are many author voices and we aim to keep the text open and dialogical. As such, this piece of writing is about suppressed thoughts and feelings that our collective picket line allows us to express. In order to maintain the open‐ended nature of the text, and perhaps also to retain some ‘dirtiness’ that is essential to writing, the article has not been language checked throughout by a native speaker of English.     

Feminism and science in Masters of Sex

This article examines the fictional characterization of the real-life sex researchers and scientists William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson in the Showtime television program Masters of Sex (2013–2016). The historical Johnson had a complicated relationship with second-wave feminism: she disdained the movement and was interested primarily in improving heterosexual marriages and the sex lives of married couples. The Johnson character speaks in a language of postfeminism with minimal interest in collective action and broader social change. However, second-wave feminists later used her and Masters’ research in order to support their own beliefs about sexual autonomy and freedom, within and beyond marriage and heterosexuality. The television program demonstrates Johnson’s importance to both phases of her and Masters’ research—in the first phase, when they are based in a hospital and university environment, and in the second, when they establish their own research institute and raise funds directly from the clients that they serve. Johnson exemplifies postfeminist depictions of ambitious women in prestige television, her aim to have a successful career and marriage conflict, and while she is willing to compromise scientific values to serve her own goals, her male colleagues temper that ambition in service of “objective” science.     

Innocent victims,creepy boys: discursive framings of sexuality in online news coverage of the celebrity nude photo hack

Following the hack, theft, and digital dissemination of hundreds of nude celebrity photographs—colloquially referred to as “The Fappening”—in August 2014, online news sites filled with speculation about and commentary upon the actions of both the hackers and the celebrities. Through a critical discourse analysis of coverage of the female celebrities and hackers in six online news outlets this project presents “The Fappening” as a case study for better understanding the ways in which the media produces discourses about sexuality, particularly sexual deviancy and victimhood. The discourse surrounding this incident was inflected with feminist ideals. The celebrities were constructed as victims not only of the hack but of broader structural issues around women’s bodies, while the hackers and posters of the photos were derided as perverted, lonely thieves. Overall, the feminist leanings of the discourse around “The Fappening” indicate that the actions of the celebrities—that is, taking and privately sharing nude photographs—can be integrated into dominant understandings of sexuality, while the online communities that stole and shared their photos must be rejected. However, the coverage indicates that celebrities who use their sexual allure for publicity deserve their victimization, undermining the apparently progressive focus of the discourse.