女性自主的正反定义: 读吉尔曼的《黄色墙纸》和《女儿国》

阐述了吉尔曼代表作《黄色墙纸》和《女儿国》中所描述的关于女性自主的正反两例。在《黄色墙纸》中,女性成为受害者。黄色墙纸象征着男权禁锢。“休息疗法”影射了社会强加在女性身上的柔弱和自我放弃。在《女儿国》中,女性摆脱了生理和社会性别角色的限制。她们在体力和智力上都具有力量的美。她们主宰着自己的身体,创造了自己的历史和文明。

Defining Female Autonomy in Negative and Positive Examples:Reading Gilman's The Yellow Wall-paper and Herland

The negative and positive examples of female autonomy are explained in the two major works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.In The Yellow Wall-paper,female is victimized by the confining male-dominant society,symbolized by the yellow wall-paper."The rest cure" innuendos the female weakness and resignation imposed on them by the society.In Herland,freed from the biological and sociological gender confinement,the Herlanders possess both the physical and intellectual power.They dominate their own body and create their own history and civilization.