社会性别辨义

对于中国当代妇女学学者来说,社会性别这个概念是在20世纪80年代中后期的“西学东渐”中,随“新女性主义”一同进入研究视野的。社会性别概念辨析起来可有四重内涵:1.社会性别作为文化要素,用来指称社会文化形成的对男女差异的理解,以及两性的群体特征和行为方式。2.社会性别作为关系体系,强调性别文化要素之间的相互关联。3.社会性别作为分析范畴,是从性别的角度对文化意识形态进行发现、辨析和阐释的工具。4.社会性别作为研究领域,既有其它任何一个学科不可替代的理论内涵,同时又与传统人文学科有着互为依存的联系。

A Probe into Social Sex

For contemporary Chinese feminist scholars,the concept social sex has been coming into research perspective together with "new feminism" in late 1980s.A probe into the concept may reveal its four divisions: firstly,social sex as a cultural element refers to both the understanding of sex difference between male and female,and their different behaviors;secondly,as a solicitude system,it emphases the inter-relationship between sex cultural elements;thirdly,as an analytic category,it is a tool to discover and interpret the cultural ideology from a sexual conscience;finally;as a research field,while it has its own theory unsubstitutable by any other discipline,it also closely relates to traditional humanities.