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The Emancipated Women

Author: JiangXiuYun
Tutor: WenFengQiao
School: Ocean University of China
Course: Contemporary Chinese Literature
Keywords: Women Liberation Male Chauvinism Subject Other-image Passivity
CLC: I207.42
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract

In recent years, the feminine literature research has been a hotspot in literature research. There are already two main research methods for studying feminine literature. One is reinterpreting the works of women writers, in order to find the awakening of their self-consciousness; the other is using the latest feminist theory to reinterpret the works of men writers who has a great influence in literary history, in order to criticize their male consciousness. In the author’s view, both the women’s liberation and the male chauvinism are complex social problem and culture problem, we should not limit the research vision in the literary field. And Chinese women’s liberation has its own unique feature: its process is closely linked with national transformation progress. So the author will expand the study range to the social and cultural fields outside of literature, And adopt interdisciplinary research methods, culture research methods and close reading methods, in order to reveal how the nation to manipulate the female emancipation and under this circumstances the remains of the male chauvinism .This Thesis is composed by three parts: preface, main body and epilogue. In the preface, the author does a carding of related field status and points out the research object and research purpose of this thesis, at the same time made a brief description about the national guiding to female emancipation from the May 4th movement to early liberation of the nation. In the first part of the main body, the author firstly summarizes the social and cultural background before and after the founding of new china. The country has a huge demand for labors, so it formulates and executes a series of policies to liberate women, which mainly perform for love freedom, average distribution of land and encourage women to participate in labor, etc. Then the author takes Zhao Shuli’s works for example to demonstrate the limitations of the marriage freedom and enforcements to women labor. People with the state power force women to work and criticize the "backward" women. The subconscious of the author also affect the characterization of characters in the novels. The second part of the paper the author selects the period which starts from the end of 1970s to the beginning of 1980s after Great Cultural Revolution as the background. At this time, science and technology is the first productivity, the intellectuals who endured so much torment have returned to the social center and the status between intellectuals and ordinary workers needs to shift. Women’s sexual desire emerges from the historical earth’s surface. And in literary works, male intellectuals must destroy their humbled image in the seventeen years literature, rebuild their subject position. Therefore, they depend on setting women to "others" to prove their subject position. Women offer them the redemption in soul and body with material and bodies, but finally being abandoned by them after they succeeded. In the third part of the main body, the author selects the period at turn of the century. Consumerism spread unchecked and the concept of making money first rampage. The market demand became the common goals of both material productions and spiritual productions. The sleazy aesthetic tastes of the general public lead to beauty and the sex become the biggest demand in spiritual market. The ideology advocates women to liberate themselves and show themselves especially show their bodies. People instigate women to exhibit their bodies by conducting some activities such as Performance Art、Fashion Show and Image Ambassador. And in literary works,“women”and sexual desire has become the best weapon to earn the eyeball of readers. In Wang Meng’s Qinghu, Women and sex is the point of strength in media publicity, is also the biggest selling point of this novel. As to Qing Hu’s“Quebracho”and her illusion about sexual passion are entirely fabricated by the author who is filled with male-dominated meanings. At the end of the Thesis, The author firstly affirms that there’s a historical inevitability in Chinese women liberation which shows passivity. Then points out its irrationality and unaccomplished. At last the author summarizes the conclusion: It’s impossible for the emancipated women to make real sense of liberation. The male power consciousness as a collective unconscious, also profoundly affects male writer’s creation.

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