Women’s Despair and Hope: Taking Half the Sky as an Example to Discuss the Present Situation of Feminism_英语论文

摘要

现在多数人在谈论女性主义时，不是以传统文学作品里的人物为范本就是进行社会学的分析，笔者借用新出版纪实文学作品辅助以社会调查，进而以社会女性主义视角来谈论女性主义现状。虽然现阶段对于女性主义的研究已取得了很多成果（著作），比如李银河教授的《女性权利的崛起》等，但仍有诸多不足。许多学者在文学作品分析时所以《简爱》、《理智与情感》等文学作品为例，并没有结合当下的实际情况来分析从而缺乏现实意义，且当今有许多性别歧视上的问题是致命的。而笔者则是想借以《天空的另一半》来深入的探讨当今有关女性主义的现状。 当今社会对于女性主义的研究大多集中在社会学角度，有少数从历史学角度进行研究。虽然有人也从文学方向研究女性主义，但多数以传统经典文学作品研究，缺乏现实意义。笔者选取最新的美国纪实文学作品，从而结合社会现实进行研究，希望能从中得出不一样的结论。

关键词：女性主义；天空的另一半；现状

Abstract

Nowadays, when the majority of people talking about feminism, not in the traditional literary works as a template for the analysis of sociology, the author borrowed a new published documentary literature to help social surveys and then used social feminist perspective to talk about the status quo of feminism. Although the study of feminism at this stage has made a lot of achievements (such as works), such as Professor Li Yinhe’s Rise of Women’s Rights, but there are still many deficiencies. Many scholars in the analysis of literary works like Jane Eyre, Sense and Sensibility and other literary works, while they did not combine the actual situation to analyze the current lack of practical significance, and today there are many gender discrimination on the issue is fatal. And the author would like to take Half the Sky to discuss the current situation of feminism in-depth. Most of the research on feminism in today’s society is concentrated in the sociological point of view, a few from the perspective of historical research. Although some people from the literary direction to research feminism, but most of them from traditional classical literary works, which is the lack of practical significance. The author chose the latest American documentary literature, which combined with social reality to study, hoping to draw a different conclusion.

Key words: Feminism; Half the Sky; current situation

Contents

Abstractiii

摘要iv

Introduction1

Chapter 1 Literature Review2

1.1 Feminism2

1.2 Two Feminist Movements2

1.2.1 The First Feminist Movement3

1.2.2 The Second Feminist Movement. 4

Chapter 2 The Reality of Women’s Despair in Half the Sky7

2.1 Sexual Trafficking and Forced Prostitution7

2.1.1 The Reality of Sexual Trafficking7

2.1.2 The Reality of Forced Prostitution8

2.2 Gender-based Violence8

2.2.1 The Reality of Collective Rape9

2.2.2 The Reality of Honor Murder9

2.3 Maternal Mortality Ratio10

Chapter 3 The Reality of Women’s Hope in Half the Sky12

3.1 How Women Achieve Gender Equality from Themselves12

3.1.1 Female Education12

3.1.2 Female Economy13

3.1.3 Girl Helps Girl14

3.2 How Men Can Help Achieve Gender Equality15

3.2.1 “He for She”15

3.2.2 The Progressive Male Movement15

Chapter 4 Feminism in the New Age17

4.1 Post-feminism17

4.2 New Feminism17

Conclusion19

Bibliography20

Acknowledgements22