摩登与反摩登——民国报刊建构的女性身体及其现代意义

Modern Implications of the Female Body Portrayed by the Publications during the Nationalist Period

民国报刊建构的摩登女性身体是现代性之于女性的作用物,具有丰富的现代意涵:首先,它指称着现代性,标志着处于世界现代化潮流中的中国人追求现代性的热烈尝试,是现代都市市民文化的具体而微的活雕塑;其次,它指称着女性解放,是身体解放的极至,是现代女性从闺阁中解放出来,走入更广阔的社会空间的一种象征;再次,它又指称着身体物化,意味着从封建专制主义与父权制家庭解放出来的女性重又沦为男权社会与商业文化消费的对象。

The female body portrayed by the publications of the Republic of Nationalist China embodied the influence of modernity.This paper suggests that this portrayed body presented the following implications.Firstly,it,as the living embodiment of the prevalent urban culture in a subtlest form,symbolized the fervent pursuit of modernity by Chinese people who were influenced by the drive of modernization in the world.Secondly,it,as a symbol of modernizing women stepping from the confines of the penthouse into the public domain,signified women＇s liberation and the liberation of the body in its extreme form.Thirdly,it,as an objectified entity,however,may mean that women became the objects of consumption in a male-dominated and commercialized society once they broke free from feudal and patriarchal families.