青年女性的情境化性别实践——以商业性相亲场域为例

Young Women’s Contextual Gender Practices: Evidence from Commercialized Matchmaking Activities

现代社会中亲密关系的缔结与维护深受商品经济逻辑的影响。在这一趋势下,青年女性在择偶约会中的性别实践随不同的情境变化。以商业性相亲场域为例,受市场化思维影响,大多数女性会突破传统性别角色的束缚,展现出与男性参与者平等的消费者形象。然而,当面对该领域里由传统性别角色固化带来的困境时,部分女性采取了自主客体化的策略,利用传统的性别角色来丰富自己在相亲活动中的收益。通过分析这种情境化性别实践的动因与自主客体化策略的局限性,揭示了当前我国商业化相亲场域普遍存在的性别不平等现象。

Economic logic shapes the creation and maintenance of intimate relations in modern society. Taking young women’s experience of attending commercialized matchmaking activities as an example,women’s gender practices vary contextually. At first, influenced by the logic of the market economy, most women challenge the traditional passive female roles and act as consumers who are in an equal relationship with their male counterparts. However, when confronted with the perpetuated gender stereotypes in commercialized matchmaking activities, some of them adopt the strategy of self-chosen objectification so as to maximize their gain in the matchmaking platform. With the analysis of the underlying reasons of women’s contextual gender practices and the limitations of the strategy of self-chosen objectification, the author draws attention to the situation of gender inequality in the current Chinese marriage market.