美国汉学家贺萧的中国妇女史研究

Gail Hershatter’s Study on Chinese Women

美国学者贺萧(Gail Hershatter)经历了美国中国妇女史研究从草创到成熟的过程,她既是这股潮流的跟随者,亦是引领该潮流的学术先锋。贺氏的研究遵循欧美史学、美国妇女史和性别史的发展路径,在中国史领域最先采纳后现代视角和"社会性别"理论,突出女性的能动性。她思路开阔,时常受到跨文化研究的启发,在研究中寻找女性的各种边缘声音,并关注个体的历史经验。2010年以后,她更强调性别视角与其他视角的结合,其研究逐渐获得了中国史学界的认可。

Gail Hershatter,the well-known U.S.historian specializing in the history of modern Chinese women,experienced the process of the history of women in the United States from its initial stage to its mature one.She is not only the follower of the trend,but also anacademic pioneer of the field.She follows the approaches of Euro-American historiography and American women’s and gender studies.And she is the first to adopt the theory of post-modernism and to take the social gender perspective to study the history of China with the attempt to highlight the role of women.In addition,she is open-minded and often inspired by cross-cultural studies.She looks for various marginal voices of women in her studies and pays attention to individual historical experience.After 2010,she places more emphasis on the combination of gender perspective with other perspectives in her studies,and gradually wins the recognition of Chinese scholars.