《蜜蜂的秘密生活》:激进女性主义的乌托邦

The Secret Life of Bees:An Utopia of Radical Feminism

通过对蕴含在小说《蜜蜂的秘密生活》中的激进女性主义意识进行深入分析和评论,总结出该小说采用了两种策略反抗父权制:建构女性家园和女性宗教。小说中的女性家园里人们相互团结,不依附男性,享有女性自主权,并拥有自己的宗教信仰。小说作者基德对该家园与外部世界的关系采取淡化,表明了它的乌托邦性质。而其乌托邦性质表明,建立在刻意淡化和削弱与男性联系基础之上的女性家园,并不可能真正消除现实社会的性别和种族问题。

The thesis mainly makes a critical study on the radical feminist ideologies embodied in the novel The Secret Life of Bees.There are two strategies that have been employed to fight against patriarchy in the novel.One is the construction of gynocentric community,and the other is the origination of ＂female religion＂.Both Kidd＇s evasion of describing the relationship between the community and the outside world,and her origination of a female religion in the gynocentric community present the Utopian essence of this community.Because of this Utopian essence,these two strategies can not eliminate the sexual and racial discrimination in the society.