张爱玲与夏洛蒂·勃朗特女性意识的差异

Differences of Feminist Consciousness in Works of Zhang Ailing and Charlotte Bronte

在女性主义的观照下,从哲学观、伦理观和女性书写诗学观等文化因素的影响等视角,分析中西女性意识差异的原因。以张爱玲为代表的早期中国女性主义通常以较温和的方式揭露女性自身弱点,解构男性中心的价值体系,并将女性气质视为女性引以为傲的特质,因此在反映女性意识时更加自信;以夏洛蒂·勃朗特为代表的早期西方女性主义对女性缺乏自信,她们常以一种激烈的方式颠覆传统女性形象,并极力排斥女性气质,表现了向男性看齐、被同化在男性阴影里的趋势。因此,在女性主义初期,相比较西方这种反本质主义的"性别二元对立"的女性观,中国女性则比较深刻与成熟,它以承认性别差异为基础的两性平等观取代了西方平等人权的观念。

Based on feminism, this paper analyzes the causes of different feminist consciousness be- tween China and the West from the perspective of culture, such as philosophy, ethnics and female writing. Represented by Zhang Ailing, the early Chinese feminism is more confident, which exposes its own weakness of women, deconstructs the central value system of men in a relatively moderate way and regards femininity as a character to be proud of. Represented by Charlotte Bronte, the early west- ern feminism lacks confidence in women, it subverts the traditional female image and extremely ex- cludes female character in a violent way, which reveals the trend that women regard men as their standard and assimilate in male shadows. Therefore, at the early stage of feminism, western feminism stresses gender binary opposition, which is anti-essentialism. Compared with it, Chinese feminism is more mature and profound, and it takes place of western epual human right with gender equality.