Female Life Consciousness In The Twentieth Century The Main Rheology

The purpose of the article is to make a diachronic study of the developing trend of Chinese women's life consciousness in the 20th century through analyzing the rebellious women images in the 20th century literature.At the beginning of the 20th century, enlightened by the male intellectuals, Chinese women's life consciousness awakened. They started to fight for the independence of feudal family and freedom of marriage. Besides these pursuits, their instinctive lust, which had been depressed for thousands of years, awakened, too. During the following great national revolution in the 30's and 40's, Chinese women began to take part in some social activities. They denied the traditional female concepts and affirmed their instinctive desire. They got liberated both in mind and body much further than women of the early 20th century.After the foundation of the new government in 1949, masculinity became the sole standard of women's behavior. Women's life consciousness became seriously abnormal. There remained a very tiny number of women who refused the masculine standards and retained the female dispositions. Such state of Chinese women's life consciousness didn't get changed until the end of the Culture Revolution in 1976.From the late 70's to the late 80's, China got liberated gradually in many respects. Women's gender consciousness was recovered. They began to negate the asceticism, masculinity and traditional marriage morality hold firmly by people before the 70's. Instead, they tended to express women's feelings and affirm women's instinctive lust so that they could rebuild female dispositions. With the deeply developing of market economy and commercial concepts in the 90's, Chinese women got the opportunity to express themselves freely in society. These modern rebellious women refused clearly to be defined by man and unfolded fully their own body experiences. They tried to build female discourse mode.The rebellious women, as the pioneers of different periods, has been enhancing and improving Chinese women's life consciousness all the time. Their rebels and struggles enrich Chinese women's personality greatly during the past 100 hundred years.