Woman Is Not The Moon

This thesis expects to analyze the humanity implication, as well as social historical connotation involved in the image of "Superwomen", and forecast a Utopia built on gender harmony and poetic culture, from the perspective of Feminism criticism, with some theories of sociological study, through the way of studying and straightening out the images of "Superwomen" in the Modern Chinese Literature Creation in 1980s. This thesis consists of six parts including an introduction and a conclusion.I . Introduction: To clearly define the concept of "Superwomen", and point out the scope of "superwomen" in this thesis, moreover, to analyze the social factors in 1980s when this concept came onto being, finally to express the significance of composing this thesis in writing and practice.II. The main body of the thesis is made up of the part from Chapter one to Chapter four. In Chapter one, according to the different characteristics of "superwomen" in three phases, fiercely struggling, proudly declaring, and rationally transcending, it divides these "superwomen" into three categories, such as not-the-moon type, also-the-sun type, and clear-headed modern-minded women, further more, deconstructs the concept that "Women are not like the moon" and reconstructs the idea that "Women also could be the sun" to form a kind of awakening feminism and horizon sublimation to reconstruct a bisexual harmonious society. In Chapter two, from outpouring of the sexual recognition, different narrative strategies, and different tastes to the beauty it compares the images from different sexual perspectives, farther to draw the conclusion that female writers surpass male writers in that they could break, reconstruct and exceed entire social culture through unscrambling the female images of "superwomen"--role expectation to the female images by men and women. In Chapter three, it attempts to merge the literature across the Straits, from the perspective of comparative literature, through the distinction among construction of the images of "superwomen" created by female writers across the Straits and their survival circumstance, to anatomy social and cultural connotation inside. The last chapter unscrambles the real connotation existing in the images of "Superwomen" from the human nature connotation, social and historical connotation, and cultural connotation three aspects. III. Conclusion: This thesis adopts the parallel argumentation method to demonstrate the images of "Superwomen" and their real connotations, in expectation to analyze and study these images completely. The conclusion is that "the female is stronger that the male" or "the female is more prominent than the male" are not the consequences that we are pursuing, exploring the way to realize the bisexual poetic harmony --is not only the task and mission confronted by the male and female together, but also the ideal living circumstance pursued by the human beings as a whole.