满足欲望,自我选择——西方的“生活方式”女性主义

Satisfaction and Self Choice:Feminist 'Life Style' in the West

本文前半部分通过珍爱选择和争取同性恋结婚权的实例,说明西方女性主义在实践中的分野,以及在全球消费大潮中所面临的理论困境。在文章的后半部分,主要谈了生活方式女性主义同消费文化的关系。文章认为,女性主义,无论是西方的或是中国的,如果把着眼点放在个人选择上,就会丧失它和社会历史的相关性,成为中产阶级妇女无病呻吟的场所,如果非要将生活方式的选择说成也是一种政治性的,那么这种政治就是一种消极的政治、一种自恋的政治。作者指出,女性主义不是真理,是对自身所处的某种社会权力结构的反应,常常受主流文化的影响。当前美国正向世界武力地、文化地、经济地推行自身的生活方式,处在这样的历史时期,如何认识西欧和美国的传统价值观,是对全球女性主义的挑战。

The first part of the paper demonstrates divides in feminist research and theoretical dilemma in feminism in front of the global wave of consumption based on an examination of choice of love and the real cases in obtaining same sex marriage. The second part of the paper focuses on the relationship between feminist life style and consumers＇ culture. This paper suggests that if feminism, in the west or in China, anchors in personal choices, it would lose its historical and social relevance and become a bed only comforting a middle class woman. If there is a tendency to politicize personal choice of life style, such politics would be inactive and self centered. The paper argues that feminism is not truth, and it responds to power structures over one＇s situated position and is often affected by the mainstream culture. Nowadays, the America is promoting its life style in the world with force and through cultural and economic means. It becomes a challenge to international feminism of how to recognize western, European and American traditional values.