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1、FiguringModernity:TheNewWomanandtheModernGirlinRepublicanChinaStevens,SarahE.FeministFormations,Volume15,Number3,Fall2003,pp.82-103(Article)PublishedbyIndianaUniversityPressForadditionalinformationaboutthisarticlehttp://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ff/summary/v015/15.3steve
2、ns.htmlAccessProvidedbyWuhanUniversityat10/13/1011:25AMGMTFiguringModernity:TheNewWomanandtheModernGirlinRepublicanChinaSARAHE.STEVENSThispaperexaminestheculturalfiguresoftheNewWomanandtheModernGirlinRepublicanChina(1911–1949).Inadditiontoreflectingtheanxietiesarisin
3、gfromachanginggenderideology,thesecontendingimagesrevealanxietiesassociatedwiththeconceptofmodernityandthemodernnationproject.TheNewWomanrepresentsapositiveviewoflinearmodernityandhopesforastrongfutureChina.TheModernGirlmanifestsintwodistinctways:asaself-absorbedwoma
4、nsearch-ingforsubjectivityandasadangerousfemmefatalewhodevourstheurbanmale.Bothofthesemanifestationsrevealdeepanxietiesoverthealienationandlossthataccompanymodernity.LiteraryworksbyDingLing,MaoDun,ShiZhecun,andothersrevealthatthefiguresoftheNewWomanandtheModernGirlcr
5、osspoliticalandcanonicallines.Theycanbestbedistinguishedbytheiruseindepictingthehopes,fears,pleasures,anddangersofmodernity.Keywords:China/gender/literature/ModernGirl/modernity/NewWoman/subjectivityDuringthefirstfewdecadesofthetwentiethcentury,contendinggroupsofChin
6、eseintellectualsusedthe“womanquestion”asakeyholethroughwhichtoaddressissuesofmodernityandthenation.BecausetheprocessofnationalinventionandthestruggletocreateanewgenderideologyoccurredsimultaneouslyinChina,thetensionbetweencontendingidealsofwomanhoodrevealsnotonlythea
7、nxietiesassociatedwithchangingrolesforwomen,butalsotheanxietiesassociatedwithmodernityandthemodernnation.Socialconservativessupportedaculturalidealofwomanhoodthataccordedwiththemoretraditionalideologyofliangqixianmu(goodwife,wisemother).Initsmodernincarnation,suchano
8、tionemphasizedwomen’sroleasmothersofcitizens,muchliketheeugenicidealofthejianquan(flawless)womenwhocontributedpropergeneticsandgest
