空间的性别建构——多琳·马西的女性主义空间理论及其对中国女性的现实启示

Gendered space: Doreen Massey’s space theory and gender equality in China

20世纪六七十年代西方社会发生了激烈的社会变革,女权主义运动不断高涨,以空间和性别为主要研究范畴的女性主义地理学应运而生。作为女性主义地理学研究的杰出代表,英国开放大学的地理学教授多琳·马西的女性主义空间理论在后现代主义思潮中独树一帜,其主要观点包括:空间具有性别化特征并且随着时空关系的变化而变化;地方感是动态开放的,封闭的地方感试图对地方进行理想化解读;城市的公共空间是男性空间;地理学知识生产具有性别化特征。在中国大型城镇化的现实语境下,中国女性的日常生活体验仍存在诸多不平等现象,马西的女性主义空间理论对研究如何保障中国女性权益以及提升中国女性生活体验具有一定启示意义。

In the 1970s,out of the drastic social movements in the West was born the feminist geography to study the relationship between space and gender.As a prominent feminist geographer,Doreen Massey from the Open University in the UK is best known for her space theory.She argued that space is gendered,gender relations vary over time and space,the sense of place should be progressive and outward-looking,public space in cities is a man-made environment and that women as both producers and subjects of academic work has been ignored in geography.Massey′s space theory sheds light on the gender in equality persisting during the decades-long massive urbanization in China.