女性与饮用水:当代性别研究的新课题

Women and Drinking Water:A New Subject of Contemporary Gender Studies

饮用水危机是当今世界所面临的一个严峻的挑战,不仅关系到全球化、社会公正和科学技术的发展,而且关系到公共健康和人类的生存。女性,尤其是发展中国家的贫困女性一直是饮用水危机的直接受害者。女性与饮用水已成为当代性别研究的一个重要课题。饮用水不仅承载着人类文明发展的历史,还反映出社会制度建构和政策制定的现实,并影响着人类社会进步的未来。毫无疑问,在伦理视域内,以饮用水为媒介来进行性别研究,能够为建设一个平等和公正的未来世界开启新的思路和开辟新的途径。

The crisis of drinking water presents a serious challenge to the contemporary world. It is not only related to the development of globalization, social justice, and science and technology, but also has a more close connection to public health and the survival of mankind. Women, especially poverty-stricken women in developing countries have been direct victims of the crisis of drinking water. The issue of women and drinking water has become an important topic of gender studies nowadays. Drinking water not only carries the history of the development of civilization, but also reflects the realities of the construction of different social systems and policies. Meanwhile, drinking water will exert influence on advancement of human society in the future. There is no doubt that as a medium of gender studies in the field of ethics, drinking water will be conductive to build an equal and just world by bringing up new ideas and opening up new paths.