整形美容手术的两难与焦虑的女性身体

The Dilemma of Cosmetic Surgery and the Anxious Female Body

整形美容手术一直是女性主义学者关注和争论的焦点。而争论的一个核心问题是:通过选择整形美容手术,女性究竟是被资本市场和父权制的合谋所压迫的"文化冤大头",还是通过整形这种个人的身体政治的操作对自我进行赋权的"行动者"?通过反思女性主义在这一问题上的不同立场,结合民族志田野调查的素材,本文以女性的整形为视角,探索女性身体在中国剧烈的社会变迁中的顺从和抗争、焦虑和欲望,并试图揭示身体与自我以及身体与社会之间复杂而又矛盾的关系。

Cosmetic surgery has been a contested site among feminists. At the heart of the controversy, a key issue is： by undergoing cosmetic surgery, are women passive ＂cultural dopes＂ controlled by the conspiracy of capitalist market and the patriarchal system, or are they active ＂agent＂ who empower themselves through this personal body politics？ Through reviewing different feminists＇ attitudes towards cosmetic surgery and using ethnographic data concerning Chinese women＇s involvement in cosmetic surgery, this paper explores the subjugation and the resistance, and the anxiety and the desire embodied in Chinese women＇s bodies during the dramatic and drastic Chinese social transition. It reveals the complex relationship between the body and the self, and that between the body and the society.