中国现当代文学的生态性写作转向

1980年代以前中国现当代文学史上的四次大的文学思潮和文学现象,包括五四”时期的“人”性写作,1930--1940年代的阶级性写作, 1950--1960年代的政党性写作和“文革”时期的领袖--集团性写作,其思维模式和表现视阈都没有跳出“人与社会”的樊篱。1980年代以后以“人与自然”为反思和表现对象的生态性写作,与前四次大的文学思潮和文学现象比较,是中国现当代文学一次最富有新质、最没有重复性和最具有开拓意义的转向。     

新伦理与旧角色:五四新女性身份认同的困境(英文)

五四新女性是在学校这一现代教育平台由新文化启蒙话语塑造而成,她们的意识形态认同来自新文化,是以个人主义为核心的正义伦理;而她们的性别认同及相应的关怀伦理,却使其对“旧道德”下的女性同类有更多同情。为实现个人权利、维护神圣恋爱,她们“忽略”名分、委屈尊严,在新旧道德的模糊地带与有妇之夫结成特殊婚姻。而非正常婚姻关系的缺憾,爱情中隐含的性别等级,个人自由与关怀伦理的对立与冲突等,都导致她们陷入认同危机。新女性身份认同的困境,体现了“五四”正义伦理的道德局限,而五四文学表达的某种匮乏,亦源自这个局限。     

创作手记中独特的“这一个＂—读陈忠实《寻找属于自己的句子》

陈忠实的创作手记《寻找属于自己的句子》是展示其长篇小说《白鹿原》艺术生成过程的重要文本。本创作手记从创作发生、构思与物化等基本阶段出发,不仅揭示了《白鹿原》的创作过程、创作理念以及审美追求,还表现了作家丰富真挚的情感世界,并以其独具的情感内蕴与话语特色成为创作手记中独特的“这一个”。     

《北京女报》与清末北京女子教育初探

《北京女报》是清末北京地区第一家妇女报纸,宣扬"兴女学"和"女子平权",在北京地区有开通风气之功。该报既是清末北京女子教育发展的热情记录者,更是推动它发展的积极力量。但是该报以维护风俗名教为己任,固守性别伦理边界,在总体上又显得保守。     

女作家自恋性写作:私人领域与公共领域的断绝

本文引入“空间”视角,在当代文学变迁的大背景下对自恋现象进行整合细化,指出私人领域与公共领域的断绝是女作家自恋性写作的根源,并辨析女作家写作中相似自恋性空间意象中个人景观、镜像景观、物景观的差异,个人写作、私人写作和身体写作的流变,反思这些变化隐含的文化嬗变.     

民俗观照下的现代文学女性书写——基于江南作家群的文学考察

现代文学江南作家塑造了一系列江南乡村女性民俗形象,并将婚姻、生育、信仰等民俗巧妙渗透于女性形象刻画之中。对女性的发现与民俗的书写一方面反映出现代文学江南作家对吴越文化精神的深刻体悟与承继,另一方面也可透视现代文学江南作家深厚而独特的民俗文化之根。     

Health and community services for trafficked women: an exploratory study of policy and practice

The trafficking of women has attracted considerable international and national policy attention, particularly since the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (2000), of which the Australian Government has been a signatory since 2005. The provision of health and community services for trafficked women is a central feature of this Protocol, but in Australia service provision is made difficult by how trafficked women are understood and treated in policy and legal terms. This study aimed to explore the provision of health and community services for trafficked women in the Greater Sydney region through a series of interviews with government and non‐government organisations. The findings reveal that services have been inaccessible as a result of sparse, uncoordinated, and poorly funded provision. The major obstacle to adequate and appropriate service provision has been a national policy approach focusing on ‘border protection’ and criminalisation rather than on trafficked women and their human rights. We conclude that further policy development needs to focus on the practical implications of how such rights can be translated into the delivery of health and community services that trafficked women can access and be supported by more effectively.     

Korean Survivors of the Japanese “Comfort Women” System: Understanding the Lifelong Consequences of Early Life Trauma

Prior to and during World War II, thousands of girls and young women were abducted from Korea and forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese government. Termed comfort women, these girls and young women suffered extreme sexual, physical, and emotional abuse and trauma. Research on this group is not well-developed and people know little of the impact of this early life trauma on the lives of these women who are now in later life. Using snowball sampling, 16 older adult survivors of the comfort women system participated in semistructured qualitative interviews. Thematic analysis was conducted to gain an understanding of the trauma that these women suffered and how it impacted their lives. Results revealed the depths of the abuse these women suffered, including repeated rapes, physical beatings, humiliation, forced surgery and sterilization, and social exclusion. These early traumatic experiences appeared to reverberate throughout their lives in their family relations, their inability to marry and to conceive children, and their emotional and physical well-being throughout the life course and into later life. The experiences of these survivors illustrate the lasting impact of early-life trauma and can guide interventions with current survivors of sexual abuse or trafficking.     

Street Violence against Women in India: Mapping Prevention Strategies

Street violence against women (SVAW) in India is highly under researched. This article aims to understand the contextual factors responsible for the occurrence of SVAW in five cities of North‐east India: Agartala, Kohima, Imphal, Shillong, and Guwahati. The aftermath of an horrific gang rape and the subsequent death of a 23‐year‐old woman in a moving bus in New Delhi in December 2012 served as a wake‐up call for the Government of India (GOI), augmenting the need to understand the issues of SVAW. On December 23, 2012, the GOI constituted the Justice Verma Committee (JVC) who prepared a 630‐page report, submitted to the Prime Minister of India, which identified “failure of governance” as the central cause of SVAW. Based on some of the recommendations of the JVC report, the GOI passed the Criminal Law Amendment Bill, 2013. Drawing upon semi‐structured interviews from qualitative research in combination with a questionnaire survey, this research aims to understand the factors that allow SVAW to persist. Using recommendations of the JVC report and the Justice Usha Mehra Commission, the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2013 , as well as research findings, this article is an attempt to inform prevention strategies aimed at escalating the safety of women in public spaces of the study region.     

Women in corrections: A call to social work

As governments continue to spend more money on law enforcement and prison construction, social workers will be increasingly faced with clients who have connections with the criminal justice and correctional systems. Despite the increasing numbers of women entering the criminal justice system, they continue to be one of the most marginalised groups in Australian society. This article reviews the social work literature concerning this population and proceeds to argue that social work has a significant role to play with women in corrections. Using a conceptual model based on an ecological systems framework, the author examines the mutuality of various social work practice principles at different levels of intervention and the roles that social workers may engage in to enhance the lives of women in corrections.