西方古典妇女史研究的兴起与发展

The Rise and Development of Western Classical Women's History Studies

本文回顾了20世纪后半叶以来西方学术界对古典妇女史的研究状况,描述了其兴起与发展的过程与特点,指出西方古典妇女史的研究经历了一个不断深入的发展过程,在研究的对象、途径、范围、方法和分析范畴等方面都取得了长足的进步:从研究知名妇女到关注包括普通妇女在内的全体女性;从使女性在古典史学中显现出来,到把社会性别作为妇女史研究的基本分析范畴,进而超越社会性别,强调女性的多重主体身份,注重差异、多样性和流动性。与此同时,吸取相关领域的研究成果,跨学科地进行研究成为西方古典妇女史研究的一种趋势。

This paper makes a survey of classical women's history studies by the Western academia since the second half of the twentieth century,especially the development and characteristics of the researchers in this field.Significant progress has been made in the object,approach,scope,means and analytic category of research;from the research of famous women to all kinds of women including ordinary women;from making women visible in Western classical historiography to treating gender as the basic analytic category of women's history studies,even transcending gender and stressing the multiple identities of women.Meanwhile,interdisciplinary researches have become a trend in the studies.This paper,moreover,probes into the significant contributions of this field to the historiography in general and the Western classical historiography in particular.