[揽瓜阁精读] 315.Women’s literature

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‘Women’s literature’ refers to literature written by women. This being so, it is easy to categorize members of this genre by gender, but that is not to say that the category really exists as an object of study. A zoologist could locate entries to the type, `brown fauna’: the doubt though is whether he could learn anything zoological by studying a family composed of brown bears and [brown] lizard. Are there literary qualities included in all works by women and precluded from all works by men? And the answer is no. Clearly, this demarcation of women’s literature by literary institutions thus has been degrading, and the teaching of women’s literature in English departments, a subversion of women’s liberation.

Trying to classify literature by sex is a self-defeating task. There are thoughts in the writings of Atticus Finch that can sound feminine, and then there are those in Dorris Lessing’s that can sound masculine. We may be prepared to admit rhetorically that no man could have written Jane Eyre and no woman James Bond, but truly, if we try to define what is specifically masculine or feminine about them, the task can only turn futile. Are women more interested in dress and domestic life? And are men more interested in war and public events? Perhaps, but then writers descend this level to a greater meaning in their writings. Infact, greater the writer, greater the capacity to transcend particularities.

The same can be true of literary characters. Looking at female characters separately has resulted in many false conclusions: “Do women have problems charting one’s identity?” Well, so is the case with almost all the heroes of the “Bildungsroman”. Do women end up choosing between personal life and career? So must the other sex….Are many women ruined by not being able to choose the man they love? So are many men forced to let go their chosen mates. Do the women get discouraged by double standards and stereotypes associated with them? Can we not see men suffering in the same manner? A writer is a writer. You care about writing. You sit down, you write, you are not a woman, or an American. You are a writer.” So, Focusing on the writer’s gender is inherently confining and directed at a reading that is biased, a thing that proponents of women’s literature fought to begin with.

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P1
女性文学不应该用女性这两个字来分类定义
- 一个动物学家例子
- 有些文学品质一定是女性专有的吗？男性的作品中完全没有吗？
P2
用性别将文学分类是完全不合理的
- 我们尝试去定义文学是男权的还是女权的是完全没有意义的
- 女性不一定更关注衣着和家庭生活，男性也不一定更关注战争和公共事件
P3
同样的划分在文学特征也是不合理的
- 女性最终就一定要在个人生活和职业中做选择吗？
- 女性不能选到true lover就会被摧毁吗？男性就会被逼着放弃命定之人吗？
- 女性是否遭遇到双标和刻板印象？男性会遇到吗？
- 作者就是作者，关注作者的性别是有局限性的，导致了有偏见的阅读，这也是女性文学支持者一开始就反对的

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DonkeyG

P1 女性文学指女性写的文学作品。根据性别很容易区分这种类型，但不代表这就是研究的对象。举了个zoologist的例子，说明没有一个文学特性是只在女性文学而不再男性作品中的。这种对女性作品划界是侮辱，教授女性文学是对女性解放的破坏。

P2 按照性别分类文学是弄巧成拙的。AF的写作可以女性化，DL也会男性化。也能承认不会有男性写出简爱一样也不会有女性写出007一样，但若要定义什么是男性化什么是女性化，这个是无意义的。女性就对裙子和生活感兴趣？男性就喜欢战争？也许吧，但作者把这些转化为更深层的意义。约有能力的作家约有这种本事。

P3 文学人物也是一样的。分开看女性角色会造成错误的结论，女性对身份定义有问题？所有的英雄也如此，女性对于个人生活和career要最终选择？男性也一样。女性因为得不到爱而最终灭忙？很多男性也是被强迫选择不爱的人。女性被double standard和偏见而discourage？男性不也一样吗？作家是作家，坐下来写东西，不是女人或者美国人，是个作家。所以注意力集中在性别上就是biased的，二者恰恰就是女性文学想要抗争的。

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