明朝中后期妇女问题新识

明朝中后期由于商品经济的高度发展,客观上有利于妇女地位的提高。妇女服饰的争奇斗妍,是明朝中后期社会生活“僭拟无涯”的突出表现。缠足的松动,贞节观念的淡漠,士大夫女性意识的改观,一时蔚为风尚。正视这些新动向,有利于全面把握明朝中后期的社会变迁。

A New Insight into Women Problems during the Middle and Late Ming Dynasty

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty,owing to the high development of commodity economy, the condition was objectively favorable for the heightening of women's social position.Women's dress was the particular expression of "boundless transcendence"in the social life.The loosening of foot-bind- ing,the indifference to the traditional view of chastity and the change of the women consciousness on the part of the literati and officialdom became the order of the day.These new trends may give us a picture of the social changes during the middle and late Ming Dynasty.