An Unsettled Pioneer——An Argument On Luyin's Female Consciousness And Significance

Not until the May 4~ Movement did women in China who dare to break away from their families and parents come to realize their own gender identity. With the name of 揇aughter of Rebellion? women broke down the sacred and inviolabLe ally of Father-and-Son existing for thousands of years and the new identity thus became the starting point of development of feminine awareness. In this aspect, Lu Yin, an outstanding representative of woman writers of the first generation, began her life-long pursuit of female spiritual standpoint and began to give her voice to feminine mainstream consciousness. May 4~ period was a time of confusion and rebellion. The system of patriarchy ruling under which sons succeeded their fathers to the power came to be demolished. Such a period, on the one hand, offered women the opportunity to express their feminine awareness. On the other hand, the principle discourse under the mainstream ideology exerted great control upon feminine discourse. The dominating discourse tradition was not only a conventional proposition derived from the specific context of the time, but was more of a powerful and well organized men抯 discourse mechanism based on Phallus order. It has created an intact ideology myth for men, while pressing women抯 mainstream expressions to the verge of disaster and left it in the position of dual compositioit Women抯 writings about individual gender expression could not be entirely divorced from the principle discourse field, while they had latent destructive force to principle discourse tradition which was center on men. Therefore, the writings of contemporary Chinese women were inevitably confined to dual track discourse. That is, women抯 writings were partly in conformity with the mainstream discourse, and partly the echo of female discourse. It was in such a discourse dilemma, Lu Yin was pioneering her immature female tradition while seeking tangible female subjects at the edge of modem linguistic system. Lu Yin?expression of feminine consciousness was based on her question upon principle discourse tradition in May 4w?period, including her rational inquiry of love sacredness and modem marriage; the reflection of courtship and marriage freedom since May 4~ movement; the avoidance of maternal love sacredness and the II _ -