Scholars ofthe humanities and social sciences in both the West and the Rest have long criticized the location of non-Western material as objects to be examined according to the unidirectional epistemological framework...Scholars ofthe humanities and social sciences in both the West and the Rest have long criticized the location of non-Western material as objects to be examined according to the unidirectional epistemological framework that is Western in conception,orientation,and organization,yet to date there has been little real progress in finding feasible answers to the ambitious questions of how non-Western traditions can produce generally applicable social theory and how Western and non-Western social experiences can carry equal authoritative generality.展开更多
The paper analyzes the femininity of Chinese intellectual women through reference to the historically estrangement. The paper explores what intellectual woman with an emphasis on and culturally significant concept of ...The paper analyzes the femininity of Chinese intellectual women through reference to the historically estrangement. The paper explores what intellectual woman with an emphasis on and culturally significant concept of it manes to be a contemporary Chinese how popular cultural images of Chinese intellectual women articulated particular, historically-conditioned tensions. The paper focuses on the theoretical construction of "estrangement," an important concept in the fields of psychoanalysis, socialist feminism and French feminism. My discussion of "estrangement" centers on the way in which the femininity of intellectual women is constructed, in particular, the degree to which they are depicted as adhering to or becoming estranged from the norms for feminine behavior. I focus on the female writer Huang Beijia's novellas, published between 1981 and 1994. The paper concludes that estrangement constitutes a haunting motif that is used to represent/understand Chinese intellectual women in the contemporary context and that the contemporary intellectual woman's predicament is, in turn, a telling motif for understanding historical changes in Chinese gender relations.展开更多
文摘Scholars ofthe humanities and social sciences in both the West and the Rest have long criticized the location of non-Western material as objects to be examined according to the unidirectional epistemological framework that is Western in conception,orientation,and organization,yet to date there has been little real progress in finding feasible answers to the ambitious questions of how non-Western traditions can produce generally applicable social theory and how Western and non-Western social experiences can carry equal authoritative generality.
文摘The paper analyzes the femininity of Chinese intellectual women through reference to the historically estrangement. The paper explores what intellectual woman with an emphasis on and culturally significant concept of it manes to be a contemporary Chinese how popular cultural images of Chinese intellectual women articulated particular, historically-conditioned tensions. The paper focuses on the theoretical construction of "estrangement," an important concept in the fields of psychoanalysis, socialist feminism and French feminism. My discussion of "estrangement" centers on the way in which the femininity of intellectual women is constructed, in particular, the degree to which they are depicted as adhering to or becoming estranged from the norms for feminine behavior. I focus on the female writer Huang Beijia's novellas, published between 1981 and 1994. The paper concludes that estrangement constitutes a haunting motif that is used to represent/understand Chinese intellectual women in the contemporary context and that the contemporary intellectual woman's predicament is, in turn, a telling motif for understanding historical changes in Chinese gender relations.