晚清改良风潮下公共场所的女性形象建构--基于北京《醒世画报》的考察

On the Construction of Female Images in Public Places Under the Reform Trend in Late Qing Dynasty——An Investigation Based on Beijing Xingshi Pictorial

随着清末新政的开展,公共场所的活动日益成为日常生活的重要议题。在"兴女学""禁缠足"的舆论热潮下,女性群体在公共场所的活动越来越频繁,对传统以男性为主导的社会文化发起了冲击和挑战。以北京《醒世画报》为文字和图画文本,考察公共场所的女性形象建构,并用社会性别理论分析其背后的性别内涵与社会意义。从中不难发现,近代媒体产生的公共舆论通过建构符合男性精英知识分子所期许和认可的女性形象,来引导和规范女性在公共场所当中的言行,并强化女子对自身社会角色的认同。

Under the public opinion upsurge of promoting women’s education and banning foot binding,the activities of women groups in public places were more and more frequent,Based on the text and picture of Beijing’s Xingshi Pictorial,this paper examined the construction of female images in public places,and analyzed the gender connotation and social significance using the gender theory.It is not difficult to find that public opinion generated by modern media guided and regulated women’s words and deeds in public places,and strengthened women’s recognition of their own social role by constructing female images that conform to the expectations and the approval of male elite intellectuals.