Urban Image Writing In Feminism

There are many methods in the study of literature, which can not only make an essential study of literature in aesthetic ways, but also place literature in a coordinate setting for study. This thesis chooses as its object of study the writings on the cross-over point of urbanity and femininity. Meanwhile, the thesis selects"the new period"in modern literature history to explain and analyze, from the feminist angle of view, the urban images in writings about femininity in the new period.1. Aim of StudyFeminist theory, appearing with feminist movement, was, at the start, a radical political theory. Feminists argued that the whole world was one in which male language prevailed, and females were not fairly treated in all fields. During its early days, feminists regarded male world as its opposite side and tried to overthrow male language by rebuilding a female world. In practice, feminists came to know the defects in their own theory and get rid of the hostilities between males and females. They were trying to find incongruity between the two sexes, and came to realize that. Only if the two sexes were evolving harmoniously, could they have greater possibility for their evolution in the future. Feminist theory, like other theories, sometimes failed because of its partiality and imperfection in some aspects however, it is all the time searching for more reasonable angles of view. The feminist theory of literature seems to have undergone the same process in development. It is steadily searching for methods to explain and analyze literature in more profound and more authoritative way.The thesis analyses the urban images described in the texts of modern urban feminists in the new period goes deeper into the depth of urban texts and builds up a harmonious system of urban images in view of feminism.2. Methods of StudyThe thesis makes an aesthetic study of the urban texts of females by using the literary theory of feminism, and probes into the deeper meaning of civil images contained in the urban texts of females. Meanwhile, the thesis studies, in line with more than one theoretical angle of view, such as modern sexual theory, urban sociologic theory, cultural geographic theory and cultural theory of images, etc. First, in the thesis, certain contexts are set for study."City"and"Metropolis"exist in different periods during the process of urbanization of human beings."Metropolis"appears in a more advanced period than"City". There is a great number of researchers, who have not yet come to agreement about the differences between"City"and"Metropolis". In the thesis, they are used in the same meaning.Second, study of literature and study of culture are combined in this thesis. The thesis, based on the study of our nation and native land, makes a study of the origin of urban image in cultural meaning and, at the same time, explains and analyses, in a complete new way, feminism in urban image, and thus probes into the important branch of urban cultural system and the meaning in building urban culture.Third, about the methods of study, the thesis possesses and open-minded vision of academic study which puts under the study of literature and its law of development a variety of study methods, like sociology, politics, cultural anthropology, cultural geography, cultural imagery and philosophy, etc. The thesis has unique academic feature in that it studies both Chinese and western worlds, and its methods of study are open-minded and not limited to one style.3. Positive Results and ConclusionCentering on texts of urban novels concerning females of the new period, the thesis theoretically traces the connotation of sexes contained in urban images in the texts. The images in the feminist texts mainly includes images of urban life and urban feminist images, from which the analysis of urban images starts and develops, and sums up the discovery of the cultural meaning of urban images appearing in the texts of the modern females of the new period in the development of urbanization and sketches the future of two sexes in the system of urban images of females.Part One, the introduction, points out the meaning and problems to be solved and raised in the thesis, and meanwhile, talks about the existing state of study in this filed at home and abroad. There is a great number of achievements in the study of theme of feminist evolution and harmony of two sexes. However, articles that make exclusive study of urban images are not many. The historical extensional and more profound study of urban images is of frontier question for study. This thesis makes discovery of urban images in this dimension. Part Two probes the sexual connotation contained in urban images, searches for the evolving process of the relationship females have with urbanity and traces the sense of sexes involved in urban images from the angles of sexual vision, sexual understanding, sexual experience and sexual manifestation. Part Two traces back to how urban images break through the encirclement, how urbanity provides females opportunities for development, how females stay in same position with males in urbanity, how females challenge their own status in a agricultural society and how females reexamine males in a feminist vision to build a female world.Part Three makes an analysis of the cultural meaning of urban images in the texts of females in the new period. At the start, people will see the complicated and colorful description of images as a whole, and then this part, in a profound way, analyses urban images appearing in the texts of various writers. The urban images, such as small lanes and family halls, symbolize the ancient culture. Through these images, females demonstrate that, in nature and formation, they are in accordance with the ancient civilization. The images of bars and ballrooms conform to the expenditure of urban females. And households, bedrooms, mirrors symbolize their regress of female soles in the wild urbanity represent the ultimate limits of the trend of female spirit.Part Four gives an explanation of the conformation of female images to urban spirit. The characteristics of professional able women making themselves widely known conforms to urban heated competition and the theory of survival of the fittest. Since the new period, the fast urban development and fast industrialization have made urban people appear puzzled before the stranger urbanity, thus spree, bohemia and anxiety are the main theme of the spirit of urban females, the trend of which is embodied in the"new generation". The urban people have experienced nihility and hope to regress in spirit. Females place their hope on their love affairs and love of their relatives. Pursuing maternity is a self-examination of history of urban civilization, and the love between the same sexes is the destination of turning back to the ease existing in the depth of their hearts.Part Five makes a thorough study of the aesthetic value in the writings of feminism of urban images, and in this way, sums up the study of literature in the study of culture and aesthetics. The thesis gives prominence to the surface features of urban modernization, and goes on to find out the breathing space of female spirit existing under the surface features, therefore, makes, in way of feminist understanding, an explanation and analysis of the culture of urban images in the society with males at its center, and in the end, forms the urban images according to the feminist angle of view. The conclusion goes over the achievements in the study and sums up the study of urban images on the bases of feminism, meanwhile, looks forward to the promising future created with the sexes of urban images.The thesis makes analysis of the urban images contained in the system of man's rights to language and builds up the urban images of feminism. In literature, construction and deconstruction of different sexes are the historical struggle of sexes in microcosm. Urban images show different cultural features in the analysis of two sexes. The ultimate aim of writings about urban images in a feminist way is to build up a system of urban culture of two sexes.