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Estrangement: A Possible Lens through which to Understand the Femininity of Contemporary Chinese Intellectual Women

Estrangement: A Possible Lens through which to Understand the Femininity of Contemporary Chinese Intellectual Women
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摘要 The paper analyzes the femininity of Chinese intellectual women through reference to the historically estrangement. The paper explores what intellectual woman with an emphasis on and culturally significant concept of it manes to be a contemporary Chinese how popular cultural images of Chinese intellectual women articulated particular, historically-conditioned tensions. The paper focuses on the theoretical construction of "estrangement," an important concept in the fields of psychoanalysis, socialist feminism and French feminism. My discussion of "estrangement" centers on the way in which the femininity of intellectual women is constructed, in particular, the degree to which they are depicted as adhering to or becoming estranged from the norms for feminine behavior. I focus on the female writer Huang Beijia's novellas, published between 1981 and 1994. The paper concludes that estrangement constitutes a haunting motif that is used to represent/understand Chinese intellectual women in the contemporary context and that the contemporary intellectual woman's predicament is, in turn, a telling motif for understanding historical changes in Chinese gender relations. The paper analyzes the femininity of Chinese intellectual women through reference to the historically estrangement. The paper explores what intellectual woman with an emphasis on and culturally significant concept of it manes to be a contemporary Chinese how popular cultural images of Chinese intellectual women articulated particular, historically-conditioned tensions. The paper focuses on the theoretical construction of "estrangement," an important concept in the fields of psychoanalysis, socialist feminism and French feminism. My discussion of "estrangement" centers on the way in which the femininity of intellectual women is constructed, in particular, the degree to which they are depicted as adhering to or becoming estranged from the norms for feminine behavior. I focus on the female writer Huang Beijia's novellas, published between 1981 and 1994. The paper concludes that estrangement constitutes a haunting motif that is used to represent/understand Chinese intellectual women in the contemporary context and that the contemporary intellectual woman's predicament is, in turn, a telling motif for understanding historical changes in Chinese gender relations.
作者 Meng Li
出处 《Frontiers of Literary Studies in China-Selected Publications from Chinese Universities》 2013年第1期87-116,共30页 中国高等学校学术文摘·文学研究(英文版)
关键词 contemporary Chinese intellectual women ESTRANGEMENT predicament contemporary Chinese intellectual women estrangement predicament
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