摘要

女性解放是中西方共同关注的社会话题，学术界也已经有许多关于这方面的研究。但如果没有将这一主题与中西方文化背景相联系，则很容易将中西方的女性解放这两者混淆。
启蒙于西方的女性解放运动，经过近三百年的发展和演变，经历了三个阶段；由于中国的女权运动缺乏理论指导，从其启蒙到新中国成立之初，中国女性主义只有约一百年的历史。西方女权运动影响深远，激起了全世界女性的维权意识，也加速了我国女性主义的形成，并推动了我国女权运动的发展。
本论文主要讨论的是导致中西方女性地位低下的因素，以及中西方女性解放运动的发展和影响。通过对社会现状的研究，我们不难发现，女性的地位和以往相比是有了很大的提高，但却没有达到彻底的解放。女性的解放不仅仅是一种目的，更是一个过程。女性要获得彻底解放，还需要走一段漫长而艰难的道路，但同时也是充满希望的道路。
   
关键词：女性解放运动；女权主义；中国；西方

Abstract

Women’s liberation is a topic attracts attention from many scholars both in China and the west; there are many researches on it in academia. However, if we do not relate this topic with cultural background, the difference of women’s liberation between China and the west would be confused.
Originated from the West, Women’s Movement had experienced three different stages in its nearly 300 years history, however the feminism in China has a history of only approximate 100 years from its incipience to the founding of the People’s Republic of China, because of a lack of theoretical guidance. It plays an increasingly important role since its appearance of the Western Women’s Movement and it inspires a worldwide incipience of feminist consciousnesses, accelerates the formation of China’s feminism, and reinforces its development tremendously.
This paper will mainly discuss the factors which led to the low status of women in China and the west, the development and influence of women’s liberation. Through the research of the current situation of society, we can easily find that the status of women has greatly increased in recent centuries. But it’s not a complete liberation. Women’s liberation is not only a goal, but also it is a process. For women to achieve the complete liberation, there is still a long and hard way to go, but it is also a hopeful one.

Key words: Women’s Movement; feminism; China; the West