维多利亚时代中期英国中产阶级中上层的家庭意识探究

A Probe into the Family Consciousness of the Middle and Upper Middle Class in the Mid-Victorian Era

维多利亚时代中期 ,英国中上层中产阶级形成了颇具特色的家庭意识。在理念上 ,他们坚持公共生活领域和私人生活领域的分离 ,推崇贤妻良母型的“家庭天使” ,营造温和的家庭亲子关系。在现实中 ,却处处体现出性别的不平等和女性的不自由 ,因而有悖于自由平等的时代精神。当时 ,很多妇女屈从于现实的安排 ,但仍有少数知识女性觉醒 ,在争取自由平等的过程中对妇女解放有了理性的认识。对这一问题的探讨 ,有助于我们更好地理解英国家庭与社会现代化的曲折历程。

There was a pan-moral family consciousness produced in the middle and upper middle class in the Mid-Victorian era, in which woman was portrayed as a holy an gel in the house. But this family consciousness was shown as unequal of gender a nd non-liberty of female not only in conception but also in reality, which was c ontrary to the spirit of age. At that time, most women yielded to the arrangemen t of reality, but there were still a few intellectual women struggling for liber ty and equality and having reasonable understanding on women liberation.