“国母教育”下的叛徒——民初女性“独身小说”现代性浅析

Traitors to ‘the Education of National Mothers’:A Brief Analysis of Modernity in ‘Singles Fiction’ by Women Writers in the Early Days of the Republic of China

近代启蒙思想家为了国家复兴而提倡"国母教育",强调女子作为"女国民"在保国善种方面的责任与义务,但却忽略了女性自身的解放与发展的需要。这期间,部分女性小说家却开始怀疑现有主流教育目的的合理性以及反思新女性的人生意义。她们笔下的女主人公放弃了传统女性执着守望的婚姻家庭,重新寻找自己新的精神归宿,而独身成为了她们反抗男权社会、摆脱依附地位、实现女性自我的表达方式。

For national regeneration, modern enlightenment thinkers promoted＇ the Education of National Mothers＇, stressing the importance of duty and responsibility in the protection of the nation and the improvement of the gene for women as ＇ women nationals＇ while ignoring their own needs for liberation and development. During that period of time, some of the women writers began having doubts about the rationality of the mainstream educational purposes and they reflected upon the meaning of life for the new woman. In their writings, female protagonists give up on marriage and family that traditional women cling to and they seek their new spiritual destination, and, in so doing, singlehood becomes a way of fighting against the patriarchal society, ridding themselves of the dependence and realizing their own selfhood.