摘要
一直以来女权主义对父权制社会的批判都停留在针对父权社会对女性的压迫上,这一点的确毋庸置疑。但是伊迪斯·华顿的小说《豪门春秋》显示:尽管男性被赋予了更多自我发展的机会,但在限制女性角色的同时,男性其实也限制了自己的角色。为了维护社会所期待的“女性气质”和“男性气质”,男性和女性们不得不牺牲他们的个体气质,这让他们无法尽情地表达他们的想法和情感,同时也阻碍他们的自我发展。对《豪门春秋》的分析揭示:男性也和女性一样受制于父权制度,父权社会不仅是女性也是男性的牢笼。
The oppression of women in the patriarchal society has long been criticized by feminism, which is undeniably right. However, Edith Wharton's House of Mirth indicates that although men have been endowed with many opportunities to develop themselves, they circumscribe their own development while putting restrictions on their counterparts. In order to meet the social expectation of “masculinity” and “femininity”, both men and women have to sacrifice their own temperament, which prevents them from fully expressing themselves and restricts them in their self-development. The analysis of House of Mirth demonstrates that both men and women are burdened with the patriarchal system and the patriarchal society is a prison house for men as well as for women.
出处
《外国文学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2007年第2期74-79,共6页
Foreign Literature
